Morris said the Central Texas campus will be the largest in his company's portfolio, which currently stretches across six markets, including a 560,000-square-foot complex under construction in Santa Clara, California, according to the Skybox website.
Data centers are sometimes criticized because they create fewer permanent jobs than something like a factory — perhaps one or two dozen. "With Skybox now coming in, that's going to provide us the opportunity to impact on the positive side for the city of Hutto, for the individuals we'll be able to have here," he said."Not to mention the fact that it will be a big boon in the property tax base, which will be beneficial to everyone here, especially those residents.
A lot of that allure is tied to the 450 acres owned by the Hutto Economic Development Corp. Combined with 1,000 acres that the city of Hutto has options to purchase, this area has commonly been referred to as a megasite, capable of handling huge commercial projects.