• Meta unveils plans for massive data center in Temple,The JW Team

    Meta unveils plans for massive data center in Temple

    Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is planning a massive data center in Temple, investing about $800 million in the town that lies between Austin and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The hyperscale data center facility will total about 900,000 square feet by the time the dust clears. T

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  • Tech firm Applied Materials considers Hutto for $2.4 billion facility, hundreds of jobs,The JW Team

    Tech firm Applied Materials considers Hutto for $2.4 billion facility, hundreds of jobs

    Applied Materials already has a campus in Austin at 9700 U.S. Highway 290 East. Now it’s considering a multibillion-dollar investment in the small suburb of Hutto. A global supplier to the semiconductor sector is formally eyeing expansion into an Austin suburb — and the capital investment could top

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  • How many people are moving to Austin each day?,The JW Team

    How many people are moving to Austin each day?

    It’s not your imagination ­— there really are more moving vans in Austin these days. In 2021, about 116 net new residents moved to the Austin metro a day, according to data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The metro had the fourth-largest total population growth in the United States betw

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