Homes and schools are already here
This is not an empty industrial tract. The filed perimeter sits amid thousands of anonymous residential sites and 15 verified or identified school and childcare locations within three miles.
Cedar Creek · Bastrop County, Texas
A 710 MW gas plant does not belong in the middle of this community.
Pacifico chose a rural and residential corridor with thousands of nearby homes, schools and childcare sites, severe drought, a history of catastrophic wildfire, and emergency capacity that has not been shown ready for this industrial scale.
Our conclusion: Bastrop County should withhold approvals and tax abatements, and Pacifico should seek a more suitable industrial location with fewer community receptors, adequate fire and water infrastructure, and a fully disclosed permitting record.
Immediate action · Monday, July 27Tax-abatement policy hearing at 9:30 a.m. · 804 Pecan Street
Agenda item D10 is the public hearing; D12 is possible adoption. Arrive early and give the County Clerk a participation form before the item is discussed.
Required correction
Texas law still requires the JETI “compelling factor” finding.
SB 2322 proposed an exemption for energy generation, but it did not become law. Current Government Code §403.609(b)(3) still requires the Comptroller to find that the agreement changes the investment decision and that the project would not occur in Texas without it.
The place matters
The filed perimeter is surrounded by an existing community
These privacy-safe GIS counts measure from Pacifico’s filed project boundary. They do not publish resident names, addresses, ownership, or submissions.
854anonymous residential sites within 1 mile
2,247anonymous residential sites within 2 miles
5,701anonymous residential sites within 3 miles
15schools or childcare sites within 3 miles
7 / 395recorded ESD station sites / square miles served
The map also places the site in D2 Severe Drought as of July 21, 2026. Station locations and district lines do not prove staffing, apparatus, fire-water, response time, or industrial-fire capability.
The decision case
Why approval should be withheld
This is an explicit public-interest position grounded in the present record—not a claim that every unresolved risk has already been proven.
Fire and water readiness are not established
Severe drought and regional wildfire history are documented. Project fire-water, station-level staffing, apparatus, mutual aid, and industrial-response capability remain unverified.
The scale-to-jobs tradeoff is stark
The revised filing pairs $2.237 billion of investment and 710 MW of generation with only 25 applicant-projected permanent jobs.
Full-buildout air review is still unavailable
The exact turbines, stacks, hours, limits, modeling, and treatment of related or co-located operations are not yet in the public record. Approval should not outrun disclosure.
Regional ledger
Four filings. One cumulative landscape.
Each project is tracked separately. Regional claims are made only where the combined record supports them.
Tracked investment$4.08Bapplicant and TDLR filed estimates
Tracked data-center area2.04M+square feet, excluding Pacifico buildings
Indexed sources13primary filings and official references
Critical unknowns8research priorities, not proven harms
CC-001Proposed / permitting
Pacifico Cedar Creek Generation Facility
A proposed 710 MW behind-the-meter natural-gas generation facility. The filing retains approximately 490 MW of associated IT load and anticipates a data-center operator as a primary off-taker for part of the output.
- Owner of record
- Pacifico Cedar Creek LLC
- Filed location
- 382 Earl Callahan Road, Cedar Creek, Texas
- Scale
- ~2,842 acres stated; listed parcels total ~2,810 acres
- Filed cost
- $2.237B applicant projection
Supplement 1 says the JETI project is the generation facility only. The anticipated adjacent data center is described as separate and third-party-owned.
Open primary recordFM535-001TDLR review complete
AUS02 Data Center
A filed two-story, fully sprinklered data center with site improvements.
- Owner of record
- DFW33220N, LLC
- Filed location
- 8001 Wolf Lane, Building 2 / 6752 FM 535, Cedar Creek
- Scale
- 578,000 sq ft
- Filed cost
- $440M filed estimate
This is an Architectural Barriers filing status. It does not establish that construction is complete or that the facility is operating.
Open primary recordFM535-002TDLR project registered
EDCAUS11 Data Center
A planned one-story data center with supporting office space, site improvements, and automatic sprinklers.
- Owner of record
- Burr Computer Environment Inc.
- Filed location
- 6682 FM 535, Cedar Creek
- Scale
- ~730,000 sq ft
- Filed cost
- $700M filed estimate
TDLR lists Burr Computer Environment Inc. as owner of record. No tenant is assigned in the filing.
Open primary recordFM535-003TDLR project registered
EDCAUS12 Data Center
A second planned one-story data center at the same filed address, with supporting office space, site improvements, and automatic sprinklers.
- Owner of record
- Burr Computer Environment Inc.
- Filed location
- 6682 FM 535, Cedar Creek
- Scale
- ~730,000 sq ft
- Filed cost
- $700M filed estimate
TDLR lists Burr Computer Environment Inc. as owner of record. No tenant is assigned in the filing.
Open primary recordWhat changed
Supplement 1 narrowed the legal project, not the public questions
The strongest current findings from the reconciled public and working repositories.
CLM-006 · Project characterizationVerified filing content
Supplement 1 limits Pacifico’s JETI project to the gas-fired generation facility and excludes the separately described data center from qualified investment and property.
Next evidence: Test the asserted separation against ownership, affiliate, contract, site-plan, and behind-the-meter electrical records.
CLM-007 · JETI compelling factorApplicant statement
Pacifico says the Bastrop investment depends on JETI and Chapter 312 incentives, but the public supplement does not disclose the comparative financial evidence needed to independently test that claim.
Next evidence: Obtain non-confidential Comptroller correspondence and independently reconstruct the competing-site comparison.
CLM-009 · Economic revisionsIndependent cross-check
Supplement 1 retains 25 permanent jobs but reduces estimated starting annual permanent payroll from about $6.2 million to about $3.5 million.
Next evidence: Reconcile every changed assumption and distinguish incentive-adjusted collections from the no-incentive projection.
CLM-010 · Current JETI lawVerified legal record
Government Code §403.609(b)(3) still requires the Comptroller to find that an agreement is a compelling factor and that the investment would not occur in Texas without it.
Next evidence: Track any future statutory change; do not treat failed SB 2322 as enacted law.
Known / unknown
We do not fill gaps with certainty
The absence of public engineering information is a reason to investigate and withhold judgment—not permission to invent a turbine count, water demand, or risk conclusion.
CriticalTurbinesManufacturer, model, unit count, ratings, and duty cycle?
CriticalAirStack heights, locations, exit conditions, annual hours, and modeled receptors?
CriticalWaterAqua WSC service, groundwater wells, or a hybrid supply—and what annual demand?
CriticalFireFire-water storage, pump redundancy, hydrants, apparatus access, and suppression design?
CriticalEmergency responseWhich agency responds, with what staffing, apparatus, industrial capability, and mutual aid?
AccountabilityLatest record changes
Substantive corrections and additions remain visible.
11 entries
Latest record changes
Substantive corrections and additions remain visible.
Gas-turbine siting record expanded
The Cedar Creek dossier now explains the air-pollution, low-frequency noise, fire and fuel-system, waste-heat, and operating-duration questions created by a 710 MW simple-cycle gas-turbine facility beside homes and schools. These are documented technology characteristics and required studies—not claims that unmodeled project-specific impacts have already been quantified. REQ-001, seeking the complete TCEQ air record, was submitted by email on July 26.
Location case and resident action center expanded
The site now states the evidence-based site-suitability conclusion directly, adds statewide air-permit precedent without attributing unproven conduct to Pacifico, reviews the July 27 county tax-abatement draft, summarizes the proposed Bastrop Bill of Rights, and publishes verified meeting, contact, records-request, TCEQ, legislative, and JETI action routes.
Amazon and EdgeConneX tract extents corrected
The GIS map replaced the earlier undersized ownership snapshots with CAD-derived site boundaries supplied from Bastrop CAD ParcelARI data fetched July 23, 2026. Amazon is now shown as an approximately 1,300-acre union of 24 former CTX/Creekside parcels. EdgeConneX-related mapping now separates AUS01, AUS02, the 179-acre Campus 2 tract, and the full 704-acre Campus 3 host parcel; Campus 3 is dashed because its approximately 400-acre project footprint has not been filed.
Drought and fixed fire-service facilities added
The GIS map added the live weekly U.S. Drought Monitor layer and seven Bastrop County ESD No. 1 station sites from Texas FireConnect. The project area is classified D2 Severe Drought on the map valid July 21, 2026. FireConnect lists seven sites across a 395-square-mile response area but does not verify staffing, apparatus, response time, water supply, or industrial-fire capability at each station; the map now makes that distinction explicit.
Community proximity layers added
The GIS map now shows 5,701 anonymized residential address points within three miles of Pacifico’s filed perimeter, schools and childcare, farms and agricultural sites, and public community places. All household names, street addresses, ownership fields, and resident-submitted locations were removed. Public-school campuses are cross-checked against Bastrop ISD; other public-facing facilities remain labeled as reference locations pending record-by-record verification.
Corridor parcels and fire controls corrected
The GIS map added current county parcels for EdgeConneX/DFW and Amazon Data Services, changed distance lines from center-point circles to offsets from Pacifico’s filed perimeter, and replaced fragile browser requests for the 2011 and 2015 fire layers with county-published geometry stored in the site.
Pacifico tract geometry corrected
The map now treats the eight property IDs listed on J0049 page 7 as the filed Pacifico project area and reconciles them to county GIS polygons. Supplement 1, Figures 2–3, depicts the same proposed-project boundary. The tract descriptions total 2,810.0553 acres, while the applicant narrative says approximately 2,842 acres.
Legal correction recorded
The Observatory corrected the earlier suggestion that dispatchable generation may be exempt from the JETI compelling-factor requirement. SB 2322 did not become law.
Supplement 1 indexed
Twelve page-level findings were added, including the project-scope change, Ohio alternative, and revised economic projections.
Owner records corrected
EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12 now identify Burr Computer Environment Inc. as the TDLR owner of record; any other relationship remains a separate research question.
FM 535 cluster expanded
AUS02, EDCAUS11, and EDCAUS12 are tracked separately and analyzed cumulatively.
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