September 3, 2026
Prosper Zoning Blocks White Rose's $580M on 1,600 Precinct VotesBastrop County's August 20 Rockne town hall drew 100-plus residents against a rural siting plan.
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Bastrop County, TX
Bastrop County, Texas is home to multiple data center facilities and has become an attractive location for data center development due to its proximity to Austin and available land resources.
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September 2, 2026
Fermi Cleared 6 GW Air in 205 Days; Denied ROW Still Cuts Jupiter's 2.45 GWBastrop County still drew 100-plus residents against a project that already cleared closed-loop and on-site generation bars experts call reasonable; Texans United Against Data Centers reached 43,000 members in three months.
July 28, 2026
Post Security Before the Study, or Watch Your 2027 Slot Go to a Buildable ProjectCoreWeave leased Building 1 (AUS02, 578,000 sq ft) at EdgeConneX's Cedar Creek campus in Bastrop County; EdgeConneX filed for two more buildings totaling 730,000 sq ft in June, with tenants for Buildings 2-4 still unannounced.
July 26, 2026
Sen. Huffman's January Bill Targets the Exemption That Built Fermi and StargateBastrop already hosts its 11-million-square-foot Gigasat facility, a colocation angle that doesn't guarantee faster permits.
May 29, 2026
Denmark Rations the Queue. Texas Developers With Land, Water, and Power Move First.EdgeConneX's $1.4B combined Bastrop County investment hasn't disclosed cooling approach, the unstated variable in central Texas.
May 8, 2026
IREN Stacks Power, GPUs, and Cloud Ops Before the Queue FillsIn Bastrop County, Amazon's 1,300-acre Cedar Creek buy expands the Central Texas footprint with no announced water strategy yet.
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