Texas County Discovers Rural Charm Means 'Room For 5,500 Acres Of Server Farms'
- Who
- Bastrop County officials and EdgeConneX developers
- What
- Approved massive data center expansion across Cedar Creek area
- When
- September 13, 2026
- Where
- Cedar Creek, Bastrop County, Texas
The Austin Business Journal reports more than 5,500 acres of data center projects are planned or underway in the Cedar Creek area of Bastrop County. The rural community northeast of Austin has become a focal point for Texas' data center boom. Local residents have expressed concerns about the scale and pace of development. EdgeConneX is among the major developers acquiring land in the area.
There's a particular poetry in watching a county sell its wide-open spaces to the only industry that needs wide-open spaces to store other people's cat videos.
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