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Switch data center completion expected in mid-summer 2024 All site work for the Switch data center under construction adjacent to the Dell Technologies campus is planned for completion next summer. In a nutshell: Bradley Dushkin, Round Rock’s assistant director of planning and development, said construction crews began work in March 2022 on the site for the future Switch data center, which is expected to be occupied by the end of 2024. The backstory: Switch is a high-performance computing technology infrastructure com- pany based out of Las Vegas, and its Tier 5 data center in Round Rock will constitute the company’s fth campus, called The Rock. Once complete, The Rock will be part of a large ecosystem of Switch campuses in Texas that will total more than 2 million square feet and 185 megawatts of power, according to informa- tion from the company.
Hutto annexes 200 acres to house large data center Hutto City Council approved an agreement to place a cap on property taxes for a large data center in the city’s Megasite, a roughly 1,400-acre tract of land on Hwy. 79 designated for industrial development. The speci cs : Approved July 20, the agreement pertains to a 220-acre parcel of land in far east Hutto that will house a data center from Dallas-based Skybox Datacen- ters and San Fransisco-based partner Prologis Inc. Called a Chapter 312 agreement, the tax abatement would last 10 years and cap property valuation at 50% over 10 years, according to city documents. The abatement agreement provides for $10 billion in assessed value, and city sta said existing property value within Hutto is $4 billion-$5 billion.
The Switch data center in Round Rock will be the Las Vegas company's fifth campus.
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What they’re saying: Robert Elliott, Switch senior vice president of government and public a airs, said the project represents “hundreds of millions of [dollars of] investment.” He also said the project is anticipated to create over 100 temporary and permanent positions. Those positions will include Switch employees who will run the facility, co-located clients of the company and construction jobs.
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