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Killeen council presses staff on data-center impacts, grant options and transitional housing plans
Summary
Council members urged proactive planning for data-center growth to avoid water and grid strain, discussed leveraging state/federal grants and military-impact funding, and heard that staff will return in July with a proposal to allocate federal housing grants for transitional housing.
Council members used the workshop to press staff on two forward-looking issues: the local infrastructure implications of data-center growth and the city's plan to use federal grants for transitional housing.
On data centers, Council member Gonzales said the city must think ahead about water and power impacts and how other cities have required developers to secure external water or power when projects exceed local allocations. "I'm not anti data center, but I just wanna make sure that we're protecting the city of Killeen's…
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