Bastrop County data centersThe data centers rising over Bastrop County
Bastrop County — specifically the Cedar Creek corridor along FM 535, ~20–30 miles southeast of Austin — has become one of Texas’s hottest data-center markets. The county has a 12-month data-center moratorium in effect through February 2027 and hired PFM Group Consulting to study the fiscal impact. Below is every known project, with the numbers that are actually published (and clear notes where they are not). The same fiber backbone feeding these campuses is what’s bringing gigabit internet to your county road.
Map centered on Cedar Creek. Project addresses: 8001 Wolf Ln, 6752/6682/6402 FM 535, and 382 Earl Callahan Rd (all 78612). Amber dot = land only / figures unverified; teal dot = confirmed project.
EdgeConneX — Cedar Creek Campus #1 (AUS02)
Under construction
- Operator
- EdgeConneX Inc. (Herndon, VA) — anchor tenant CoreWeave; Rackspace named in early reporting
- Location
- 8001 Wolf Lane / 6752 FM 535, Cedar Creek (FM 535 & Wolf Lane) · ~30.139°N, −97.565°W
- Size
- ~112–140 acres (sources differ); 4 buildings planned; first building 578,000 sq ft, two-story
- Power capacity
- First building up to 96 MW; campus 384 MW planned (4 × 96 MW) — CONFIRMED
- Power source
- Grid (ERCOT); no on-site generation reported
- Water use
- Not disclosed
- Investment
- $440M first building; ~$1.44B campus total
- Jobs
- ~60 permanent (~$5.8M annual payroll)
- Timeline
- Construction began Aug 2025; first building ~Aug 2026
- Tax
- 10-yr, 75% property-tax abatement on value above 2024 base (approved Dec 2024)
EdgeConneX — Cedar Creek Campus #2 (EDCAUS11–14)
Filed / planned
- Operator
- EdgeConneX Inc.; tenants not publicly identified
- Location
- 6682 & 6402 FM 535, Cedar Creek — adjacent to Campus #1 (~30.13°N, −97.56°W, approx.)
- Size
- Reporting conflicts: 951 acres across two parcels (Community Impact) vs. 4 buildings ~730,000 sq ft each / ~2.9M sq ft (DCD); 2 buildings now + up to 7 future phases
- Power capacity
- Not disclosed — UNVERIFIED (no MW figure published)
- Power source
- Not disclosed
- Water use
- Not disclosed
- Investment
- ~$700M first two buildings; up to ~$2.8B for four ($700M/building)
- Timeline
- EDCAUS11&12: start Jun 30 2026 → done Dec 31 2028. EDCAUS13&14: start Sep 1 2026 → done Mar 31 2029
Pacifico Energy “Cedar Creek Campus” (Anthropic-linked)
Under review
- Developer
- Pacifico Energy LLC + BlackChamber Partners. Anthropic reported in lease talks (Aug 2026) — UNVERIFIED, not finalized
- Location
- 382 Earl Callahan Road, Cedar Creek 78612 — ~7 mi SE of the EdgeConneX campuses (~30.04°N, −97.45°W, est.)
- Size
- 2,842 acres (~4.4 sq mi); building sq ft not disclosed
- Power capacity
- ~490 MW data-center IT load + a 710 MW on-site natural-gas power plant — CONFIRMED
- Power source
- On-site natural gas, delivered directly to the campus, bypassing the local grid (island microgrid)
- Water use
- Not disclosed (residents formally requesting groundwater studies)
- Investment
- ~$2.24B (power facility)
- Jobs
- 25 permanent (~$6.2M annual payroll)
- Timeline
- Gas-plant construction possibly Q3 2026; operational target 2028
- Controversy
- Chapter 312 & JETI tax-break requests WITHDRAWN Aug 20 2026 after resident pushback; company says it will pay full property taxes. Neighbor concerns: air quality, groundwater, noise, light, traffic, the gas plant. Change.org petition active
Amazon Data Services — Cedar Creek land
Land acquired; no announced project
- Owner
- Amazon Data Services Inc. (AWS)
- Location
- Cedar Creek, ~3 mi SW of EdgeConneX (formerly the planned “Creekside” community; bought from CTX Capital Partners, closed May 1 2026)
- Size
- 1,229 acres (some outlets: 1,300+)
- Status
- No public filing, timeline, capacity, power, water, jobs, or investment announced — UNVERIFIED; do not assume figures
Regional context
Regional context — Sandow Lakes / “Stargate” (Milam County, NOT Bastrop)
Milam County — regional context
- Why it's here
- The user often-conflated Alcoa/Sandow site is in Milam County (Rockdale, ~70 mi NE of Austin), not Bastrop — included only as regional context
- Project
- OpenAI “Stargate,” built/operated by SB Energy (SoftBank), with OpenAI/Oracle/SoftBank; on the ~33,000-acre Sandow Lakes Ranch
- Power capacity
- 1.2 GW (1,200 MW) planned — CONFIRMED; largely on-site generation + storage; first building ~Oct 2026
The bottom line on power
Only two hard megawatt figures are public: EdgeConneX Campus #1 at 384 MW planned, and the Pacifico/Anthropic-linked campus at ~490 MW of IT load plus a 710 MW on-site gas plant. Campus #2 and the Amazon land have no published capacity. No water-use figure has been published for any Bastrop project — that gap is itself a live local controversy. We don’t invent numbers; where it says “not disclosed,” it means exactly that.
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