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August 9, 2026Newest

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TCEQ challenge docketed as August 10 county-authority vote approaches

TCEQ now indexes two amended motions under Pacifico's active construction-stormwater authorization asking the Commission to review and stay both Pacifico's TXR1565YW and Black Chamber's TXR1551YV. Neither authorization has been stayed or suspended, and the filings' assertions are not agency findings. The latest record sweep also confirms the signed county tax-abatement policy, tomorrow's Item E.4 county-authority vote, a new Pacifico-specific anti-abatement petition, posted ESD 1, LEPC and BISD agendas, an ERCOT Batch Zero delay, ESD 1 fire-code requirements, and two carefully separated FM 535 corridor developments.

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August 6, 2026

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Aqua tables Pacifico again after study reveals conditional water service

Aqua WSC confirmed that its board tabled Item 13 and did not approve proposed Resolution 26.08.02 on August 4. The open-record production shows that Garver reports existing supply and firm pumping below the capacity ratios cited in its revised study; even Pacifico's developer-supplied 14-gpm peak request depends on new Watterson wells and treatment, a pump station, storage and approximately 2.5 miles of approach main. It also contains materially different February and May layouts: the superseded concept shows two large data-center buildings and a compact power block, while the later plan shows four narrower buildings—two marked future—and a lengthened generation block. Neither provides a complete MW schedule, so 710 MW of generation and approximately 490 MW of IT load remain JETI full-buildout figures rather than capacities verified by the drawings.

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August 5, 2026

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Texas Data-Center Directive Gap Map

Interactive statewide screen of projects the ERCOT-centered directive may not reach or stop.

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August 4, 2026

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Abbott data-center directive leaves an ERCOT-only gap

Governor Abbott's August 3 directive did not stop every Texas data center. Its operative language reaches projects advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process, while construction, onsite generation, air permits, water agreements, incentives, non-ERCOT Texas, and already operating or approved campuses are not halted by the letter itself. Lost Pines Watch's deliberately inclusive map tracks 54 mappable project groups plus four unlocated records with private, co-located, dedicated, inherited, hybrid, non-ERCOT, or size-threshold questions. Gray markers are context cases—not claims of exemption. Cedar Creek's exact ERCOT status remains publicly unresolved.

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July 31, 2026

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Aqua’s Pacifico study models only 23 LUEs and no fire flow

The 12-page packet for Resolution 26.08.02 says Aqua has sufficient capacity to serve a data center, but the attached engineering analysis tests a developer-supplied request of 9 gpm maximum-day demand, 14 gpm peak-hour demand, and no fire flow. Service is contingent on specified infrastructure. The packet does not establish total campus water demand, cooling design, fire-water supply, annual volume, final customer identity, or the enforceable terms of the future Non-Standard Service Agreement.

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Analysis of Aqua’s Pacifico Feasibility Study

Source-linked analysis of Aqua’s narrow water-demand model, conditions and missing questions.

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July 30, 2026

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Texas retirement capital and the BlackChamber funding loop documented

Official TMRS records show a $50 million commitment to BlackChamber’s first real-estate opportunity fund in 2020 and a $100 million commitment to Fund II in 2025. Lost Pines Watch added a source-linked explainer showing how Texas public retirement capital, private data-center development, requested tax relief, and local utility decisions can form a circular public-private system. The record does not establish that TMRS money is specifically financing Cedar Creek, and the page labels that missing project-level link explicitly.

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Texas Is on Both Sides of the Cedar Creek Deal

Explainer on public retirement capital, private infrastructure investment and requested tax relief.

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July 29, 2026

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Aqua formally schedules a Pacifico water-service vote

Aqua WSC's official August 4 agenda now lists Item 13: discuss and take action on approving Large Volume Water Service to Pacifico Energy Development LLC through Resolution No. 26.08.02 in Zone 2. This replaces the earlier “reported discussion; agenda pending” status. The agenda does not attach the revised feasibility study or resolution, so residents should ask Aqua to publish the engineering basis, full demand and fire-flow figures, infrastructure requirements, and cost allocation before any final action.

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CoreWeave officially identified as AUS02 occupant

The Texas Comptroller's qualifying-large-data-center register names AI cloud company CoreWeave as the occupant of EdgeConneX AU02, DFW33220N as owner, and DFW33220N Operations 1 as operator. Community Impact reports the $440 million building is expected to open in August. The same state register separately lists ECX AUS11-16 with EdgeConneX affiliates, but it does not identify an outside end customer for those buildings. Both registrations qualify for a program offering a 20-year sales-and-use-tax exemption on qualifying purchases, subject to statutory requirements.

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Permit watch and Pacifico due diligence expanded

TCEQ's pending-air-application list was checked again after its July 29 update; no publicly identifiable Cedar Creek entry was found under the known Pacifico, Black Chamber, B&W Ranch, or project names. The JETI page still shows only the original application and Supplement 1. The dossier now also separates two other Pacifico projects from Cedar Creek: GW Ranch's full TCEQ air record shows the level of turbine and emissions detail a mature application contains, while independent public-record reporting on Fort Spunky shows why a definitive water source and clear county authority matter before approval. Two official groundwater events were added to the public calendar.

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July 28, 2026

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August public-meeting watch added

The Resident Action Center now highlights Aqua WSC’s August 4 public board meeting, where Aqua staff reportedly said Pacifico will be discussed. Aqua’s official site confirms the date, time, and location; the August agenda was not yet posted when checked. The site also lists the next official meetings of Bastrop County Commissioners Court, ESD 1, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, Bastrop ISD, and ESD 3, while clearly distinguishing scheduled meetings from confirmed Pacifico agenda items.

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Construction operators, water record, and project timeline added

The Observatory added TCEQ authorizations TXR1551YV and TXR1565YW, identifying Black Chamber Partners on a 304-acre data-center footprint and Pacifico CCK Energy 1 on a 173.54-acre power footprint. The update also adds Aqua’s tabled large-volume water request, newly registered project entities, the less-advanced Ohio record, the estimated power-side subsidy scale, pipeline screening, air-permit status, and a source-linked chronology. Stormwater coverage is explicitly distinguished from approval of the overall project.

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Verified numbers, source links, contacts and reporting cautions.

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Fact cards, shareable copy and printable community materials.

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710 MW of gas generation

Proposed in a corridor with 5,701 anonymous residential sites within three miles.

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25 permanent jobs projected

$2.237 billion of investment and 710 MW of generation appear in the revised filing.

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Aqua tabled the request again

The detailed study models 14 gpm and makes service conditional on major capital projects.

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477.54 acres of planned disturbance

Two active construction-stormwater authorizations cover the data-center and power footprints.

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About $143.7M on the power side

Estimated ten-year local abatement and JETI relief if the requested package is approved.

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July 27, 2026

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Countywide tax-abatement guidelines adopted

Commissioners Court adopted the updated Chapter 312 guidelines after the public hearing. The county's signed 16-page record now confirms the July 27 adoption, a two-year term and Commissioner Mark Meuth's absence. This countywide policy made the County eligible to consider abatements; it did not approve Pacifico's individual reinvestment-zone or tax-abatement requests.

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July 26, 2026

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The 2-Minute Brief

The strongest facts, unresolved questions and immediate resident actions in plain language.

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What a 710 MW Gas-Turbine Plant Could Look Like

Labeled real-world visual references and careful limits on what they can establish.

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Submit Information

Evidence and community-information intake with privacy safeguards.

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July 25, 2026

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Supplement 1 indexed

Twelve page-level findings were added, including the project-scope change, Ohio alternative, and revised economic projections.

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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.

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