Lytle extends ETJ to include proposed data center project

By Anton Riecher
The Lytle City Council voted Monday to extend the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction to include the site for a proposed $2.1 billion data center campus that developers hope to eventually have annexed into the city.
City Administrator Zachary Meadows said the developers, Colorado-based Rowan Digital Infrastructure, want to pursue a development agreement with the city that would include tax abatements for the project.
“The only way to do that is to either be in the ETJ or in the city of Lytle,” Meadows said.
Located on a 440-acre site bordering county roads 683 to the east and 6712 on the west, Project Cinco is described as a “hyperscaler” project – a large scale built-to-suit data center that provides cloud computing, networking and data storage services to millions of users.
In December Medina County commissioners approved an…

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