Bastrop County

Updates, newest first

1. Aug. 19, 2026 Pacifico Cedar Creek data center and power campus · The developers withdrew both county abatement applications. (Elgin Courier, Aug. 25, 2026)
2. June 24, 2026 Pacifico Cedar Creek data center and power campus · Pacifico filed a JETI application with the Texas Comptroller. (Community Impact, July 15, 2026)
3. March 26, 2026 EdgeConneX second Bastrop County campus · An EdgeConneX executive announced the second campus at a business panel in Bastrop. (Community Impact, March 31, 2026)
4. Sept. 24, 2025 EdgeConneX Cedar Creek campus (DFW33220N) · County records showed work under way on the first 578,000 square foot building, with up to 96 MW. (Elgin Courier, Sept. 24, 2025)
5. Dec. 9, 2024 EdgeConneX Cedar Creek campus (DFW33220N) · Bastrop County commissioners offered a 10-year abatement for a 2.8 million square foot campus on 112 acres. (Community Impact, Dec. 12, 2024)

Statewide

SB 6 (89th Legislature, 2025) makes the PUCT set interconnection standards for loads of 75 MW or more in ERCOT, requiring site control, study fees, financial security, disclosure of duplicate requests and backup generation, and emergency curtailment of new large loads; effective June 20, 2025, with PUCT rules due by Dec. 31, 2026 (Projects 58479-58484, 58000). (POWER Magazine, Aug. 4, 2026; Foley & Lardner, March 31, 2026) PUCT draft large-load interconnection rule (published March 2026) would require $50,000 per MW in security, $100,000-$300,000 study fees, a $50,000-per-MW nonrefundable fee and full customer payment of direct interconnection costs; interconnection standards rulemaking (Project 58481) was still in scoping as of August 2026. (Foley & Lardner, March 31, 2026; POWER Magazine, Aug. 4, 2026) ERCOT batch study framework (NPRR1325/PGRR145), approved by the PUCT June 18, 2026, required $50,000 per MW of security by July 10 for 'Batch Zero', with results due April 2027; large-load requests totaled about 474 GW in June 2026, about 421 GW of it data centers. (POWER Magazine, Aug. 4, 2026) Gov. Abbott's Aug. 3, 2026 directive ordered the PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue and deny grid access to projects that fail to disclose ownership, financial, water and community-impact information, which several outlets described as a de facto statewide pause. (POWER Magazine, Aug. 4, 2026; E&E News by POLITICO, Aug. 11, 2026) State sales and use tax exemption for qualifying data centers (Tax Code Secs. 151.359 and 151.3595; created by HB 1223, 83rd Legislature, 2013, expanded 2015); the Comptroller has certified 138 data centers, and estimates of cost run from about $3.2 billion for 2026-27 to $3.3 billion for 2028-29. (Public Citizen (testimony to Texas Senate Finance Committee), July 27, 2026; Texas Public Radio / The Texas Newsroom, July 28, 2026) Local property tax abatements under Tax Code Chapter 312 are the main county and city incentive; school-district value limits under Chapter 313 expired at the end of 2022 and were replaced by the JETI program (HB 5, 88th Legislature, 2023), which data center power projects such as Pacifico's Bastrop proposal have applied to. (Community Impact, Feb. 23, 2024; Community Impact, July 15, 2026; Haskell County Commissioners Court, Jan. 9, 2026) Texas data centers →