WACO — Texas’ AI boom and the tide of data center companies chasing it have arrived in the Waco area.

Lacy Lakeview, a suburban town five miles north of downtown Waco, and McLennan County are negotiating the area’s first large-scale data center project, valued at some $10 billion on 520 acres of farmland west of Elm Mott. Across the bargaining table is Infrakey, a data center company formed in March.

Infrakey purchased the farmland in June, the same month the Lacy Lakeview City Council signed a memorandum of understanding with the company.

The Lacy Lakeview Data District depicted in the company’s online material shows a scale of industrial development and investment unmatched in McLennan County’s history: acres of computer hardware, substations and a 1.2-gigawatt gas-fired plant capab

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