Kyle, TX Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Zoning & Siting (2026)

Section 9 of the Plum Creek PUD zoning ordinance, Chapter 53A of the Kyle City Code adopted by Ordinance No. 311 on July 22, 1997 and amended by Ordinance 787 (2014) and Ordinance 832 (2015), establishes the "EMP" employment PUD district as an area for commercial businesses, services and industries compatible with adjacent residential neighborhoods. Subsection (B)(17) lists "Data centers" as the seventeenth permitted use in the district, alongside offices, warehouses, research and testing facilities, and light manufacturing and assembly uses. A data center sited in the EMP district must meet the district's site development regulations in subsection (C): a minimum lot size of 5,750 square feet, minimum lot width of 50 feet and lot depth of 100 feet, a maximum building height of 75 feet, and a maximum floor area ratio of 1.5.

Front, side and rear yard setbacks are not required in the EMP district. Development also needs a letter of approval from the architectural review committee submitted with the site plan application, paved sidewalks, driveways and parking areas, and screening of any loading and storage facilities. Because these standards sit inside the Plum Creek PUD exhibit, they apply only to EMP-zoned land within Plum Creek; a data center proposed elsewhere in Kyle would instead be evaluated against the city's standard Chapter 53 zoning use tables and any applicable overlay district.