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Local numbers, kept separate
Building Bastrop County is the local project ledger: investment, abatement status, Pacifico’s full-rate tax, water equivalents, and careers. Tomorrow Begins Here is the broader case: closed-loop water compared with a golf course and a subdivision, the school-funding model, and Texas grid rules. The Department of Energy op-ed is a national argument about closed-loop cooling and developers paying for their own power lines. The Texas Association of Business page is a statewide count — operating centers, construction, jobs, and water. The Texas Economic Development Corporation pages describe the state market, a 2023 jobs-and-income total that includes indirect work, and the expectation that new load come with new power. The Data Center Coalition’s February 2025 Texas tax report is a statewide revenue total, and its FAQ is the association’s national account of jobs, water, noise, and electric bills. The America First Policy Institute memo is a national negotiating guide: closed-loop water written as a number, noise limits at the property line, and the difference between a one-time gift and a property-tax stream. None of those is a Bastrop County appraisal. If a sentence names a Bastrop number, it belongs to one of the first two sources.
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Do not add the tax lines together
The EdgeConneX abatement total of $107 million+ is what Building Bastrop County says the county and ISD receive during the abatement. Tomorrow Begins Here’s $15.5 million a year, $155 million over ten years, is an ISD projection for that proposal. They overlap in subject and disagree in amount. Pacifico’s $20 million+ a year is a different campus, at the full rate. None of these are a single combined annual check.
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The before-and-after is the point
The land’s published starting point is $25,000 a year. Every commercial figure on this site is being compared with that, and with the service load of houses — about about 1,500 students and 300,000 to 400,000 gallons a day for a 1,000-home subdivision.
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What this site will not invent
No homestead savings calculator, no claim that EdgeConneX is off the grid, and no claim that a reported tenant conversation is a signed lease. Pacifico’s on-site plant is described as grid-independent. EdgeConneX’s 96 megawatts are capacity.
Read them yourself
- Building Bastrop County
Local project figures, the tax comparison with raw land, Pacifico’s full-rate payment, closed-loop water, careers, and answers to resident concerns.
- Building Bastrop County · EdgeConneX
Phase-one and full-buildout investment for the Cedar Creek campus.
- Tomorrow Begins Here
Why a rural data center can fund schools without new enrollment, and how ordinary life already depends on this infrastructure.
- Tomorrow Begins Here · Texas
Property-tax relief, careers, and industrial customers paying for their own power infrastructure.
- U.S. Department of Energy
July 2026 op-ed by Assistant Secretary Tim Walsh on closed-loop cooling and the Rate Payer Protection Pledge. A national argument, not a Bastrop appraisal.
- Texas Association of Business
Statewide counts from the state chamber: operating data centers, 2025 construction, jobs, and the share of Texas water those buildings use. Not a Bastrop County appraisal.
- Texas Economic Development Corporation
The state’s economic development office on why Texas leads the data center market, and a May 2025 brief on jobs and labor income. Statewide, not a Bastrop County appraisal.
- Data Center Coalition
Industry association. Its February 2025 Texas tax report puts 2024 state and local tax revenue in the billions. A statewide total, not the Cedar Creek appraisal.
- Data Center Coalition · FAQ
The association’s answers on jobs, water, noise, and who pays for electricity. National and Virginia examples, not a Bastrop appraisal.
- America First Policy Institute
September 10, 2026 memo on community-friendly design and on keeping the property-tax stream instead of trading it for a one-time gift. National examples, not a Bastrop appraisal.