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CEDAR CREEK — Bastrop County’s industrial footprint is expanding again, this time with a data center development that could reshape the landscape near Cedar Creek.
EdgeConneX Inc., based out of Virginia, has begun work on the first phase of a $4.4 billion project planned for Wolf Lane near FM 535, county records show. The initial building is slated at 578,000 square feet, but the company has indicated long-term plans for a four-building campus that could more than triple that number.
The company owns about 100 acres at the site and described the campus as a purpose-built data center offering up to 96 megawatts of capacity to serve cloud computing and artificial intelligence needs.
Officials said the project could generate millions in new revenue for the county and Bastrop Independent School District over the next decade, replacing land that currently yields little in tax revenue with one of the region’s most significant commercial investments.
The Bastrop County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement for EdgeConneX in December that grants a 10-year break on 75% of new county taxes assessed above the 2024 base value.
“We don’t have many tools at our disposal,” Precinct 2 Commissioner Clara Beckett said during the vote. “Taxes are pretty much the only tool to get what we would want here.”
County documents show the first building is expected to be completed in June 2026. Hundreds of construction jobs and dozens of permanent positions are projected.
