Cedar Creek
EdgeConneX
Under construction
A hyperscale campus selected over 535 competing sites. Phase one is a $1.4 billion build. The full campus is planned above $5 billion, with capacity up to 96 megawatts.
- Phase 1
- $1.4 billion
- Full buildout
- $5 billion+
- Capacity
- Up to 96 MW
- Won against
- 535 sites
Cedar Creek
Pacifico & BlackChamber
Pays full property tax
A $2.2 billion campus with 710 megawatts of on-site natural gas generation, on 2,842 acres. Chapter 312 and JETI abatement requests were withdrawn. The published potable draw is about 2,000 gallons a day.
- Investment
- $2.2 billion
- On-site power
- 710 MW
- Annual tax
- $20 million+
- Water equivalents
- 23 LUEs
Read the two tax postures separately
EdgeConneX is under construction. Its phase-one building is the $1.4 billion start of a campus planned above $5 billion+. The abatement is real, and so is the published result during that abatement: more than $107 million+ to the county and Bastrop ISD, against $25,000 a year from the land before. Tomorrow Begins Here’s ISD projection for the proposal is $15.5 million a year.
Pacifico is the full-freight case. Chapter 312 and JETI requests were withdrawn. The published bill is $20 million+ a year, described as 30%+ of county revenue, from a $2.2 billion campus on 2,842 acres. Building Bastrop County also notes reported talks with Anthropic, the company behind Claude, about leasing space. Reported interest is not an announced lease.
The power designs differ too. Pacifico’s 710 MW plant is on the property. EdgeConneX’s figure of up to 96 MW is campus capacity, not a claim that the building generates its own electricity.
Careers
The jobs are real. They are not the main event.
Headcount is the wrong scoreboard, and it is still a good set of jobs. Each construction phase is published at 400–600 people. Permanent roles land in a band of $55,000–$130,000+, and most of the technician paths do not require a four-year degree. Austin Community College and Texas State Technical College are the local routes named for certificates that can be finished in under a year, alongside CompTIA and Cisco networking programs.
Published pay bands
Construction trades
$45,000–$90,000
Security operations
$50,000–$80,000
Data center technician
$55,000–$85,000
HVAC and cooling
$60,000–$95,000
Electrical technician
$65,000–$100,000
Network engineer
$80,000–$130,000+
Building Bastrop County. Each bar runs from the low end of the published range to the high end. Network engineering is published as $130,000 and up, so the bar stops at the stated floor of that top end.
Data center technician
$55,000–$85,000
Servers, storage, and the network, around the clock.
HVAC and cooling specialist
$60,000–$95,000
Closed-loop systems that keep high-density halls in range.
Electrical technician
$65,000–$100,000
Power distribution, generators, and backup systems.
Security operations
$50,000–$80,000
Access control and on-site protection. The county is not the night shift.
Network engineer
$80,000–$130,000+
The fiber and routing that tie the campus to the rest of the internet.
Construction trades
$45,000–$90,000
Electricians, ironworkers, concrete, and heavy equipment while each phase is built.