Data centers are not allowed in every zoning district. The use table permits them by right in Business Park (BP) and Industrial (IN) districts, permits them with limitations in General Commercial (C-3), Office (OF), and Mixed-Use (MU) districts, and does not allow them in the remaining listed districts.

A data center building may not exceed 5,000 square feet under the commercial-use limitations.

A data center must comply with all applicable development fees and pay the infrastructure costs associated with the project, including electric infrastructure such as substations, transformers, utility lines, and switchgear.

Large electric users, including data centers, must make multi-month electricity prepayments and provide letters of credit, and contracts must recover the customer's operating and energy costs.

Data centers must pay applicable water, wastewater, and road impact fees for the additional infrastructure demand they create.

Before construction, a project must submit a stormwater pollution prevention plan and use erosion and sediment controls at the construction site.

The Unified Development Code requires applicable data-center construction projects to address hydraulic studies, increased setbacks from wellheads, and protections for private wells and regional aquifers.

Cooling water must comply with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requirements governing treatment or temperature reduction before discharge into the City's sewer system.

Data centers must comply with Georgetown's noise limits of 72 decibels during the day and 65 decibels at night.

The UDC expressly recognizes data centers as a permitted commercial use: they are allowed by right in the BP and IN districts, allowed with limitations in the C-3, OF, and MU districts, and not allowed in the other listed districts. The use table is subject to the code’s district requirements and the data-center limitation that the building may not exceed 5,000 square feet. (Data Center use-table entries)

The city requires large electric users, including data centers, to pay the infrastructure costs needed to serve their facilities, including substation transformers, utility lines, switchgear, and related equipment. The policy also requires multi-month prepayments and letters of credit to secure electricity-use payments. (fully pay for the infrastructure costs)

Very large electric-load customers must have contract provisions that recover all operating and energy costs from the customer, reducing the risk that the utility will absorb those costs. (robust contract provisions)

The city uses water, wastewater, and transportation impact fees so a data-center project pays for the additional infrastructure demand it creates rather than having those costs shifted to existing residents. (impact fees for water, wastewater, and roads)

The city states that the data-center company must pay all development fees and project-related infrastructure costs, with no such costs passed to Georgetown Electric or Water customers. (pay all development fees and infrastructure costs)