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Westlake officials announce construction of data center near Keller, Southlake

Westlake officials announced that a data center will be constructed within town limits in a social media post July 29.

What's happening? The proposed data center will be located south of the town’s existing pump station at 13590 Denton Highway, also known as US 377.

The location will be near the Marshall Ridge, Marshall Ridge Point and Center Stage housing and mixed-use developments, which are located in Keller, according to previous reporting.

Westlake officials said the data center will be 1,200 yards away from the nearest Westlake home. However, the development will back up to Llano Court in Keller.

The details: According to the town’s news release, the planned campus is expected to use 54 million gallons of water per year, which is the equivalent of the usage of one of Westlake’s existing corporate campuses. The data center system will operate without any water for roughly 85% of the year, according to the town's website on the project.

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Kimiya Japanese Cuisine offers sushi, more in Roanoke

Kimiya Japanese Cuisine is open in Roanoke.

The details: The restaurant offers sushi, fresh sashimi, ramen, classic tempura, teriyaki and chef-inspired Japanese dishes, according to its website. Popular menu items are chicken fried rice, hibachi steak and chicken, pan-fried pork dumplings, California roll, chicken teriyaki and edamame, according to its online ordering platform.

The original projected completion date for the buildout of the restaurant was mid-September 2025, according to previous reporting.

What else? The Japanese restaurant is located where On The Border used to be off SH 114, which closed at the end of 2024, according to previous reporting.

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July 31-Aug. 1
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Texas spends billions on tax breaks for data centers. There’s a bipartisan legislative push to repeal them.

Texas lawmakers are considering cutting a costly, decade-old tax break for the state’s booming data center industry.

The overview: Texas spends more than $1 billion annually on the sales tax exemption, and the comptroller’s office estimated in 2025 that due to the program, the state will lose about $3.2 billion in sales tax revenue over the next two years.

The Lone Star State is home to the nation’s fastest-growing data center market, and the Data Center Coalition, which advocates for the industry, has argued that the tax break program is key to maintaining that title. Senators and members of the public who spoke at a July 27 hearing disagreed.

Looking ahead: Amid a bipartisan push for more regulation of data centers, senators indicated that they intend to add more strings to the tax exemption program or eliminate it entirely.

"The question is whether or not we need to have a special session where all of us are focusing in on this," Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said.

“We do,” Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, replied.