Community update · October 26, 2026
After the town hall: new records and next steps
Thank you for showing up, speaking up and supporting this work. Catch up on the town hall and October coverage, take action by November 2, and explore a new land record and an expanded map.
1 · Our community
Thank you for being part of the town hall.
Thank you to everyone who joined our October 20 community town hall at Lost Pines Pickleball Club, and to everyone who watched online. 140+ neighbors came together to discuss Pacifico’s proposed gas plant and data-center development, the permitting pause, and the questions our community still needs answered.
The discussion focused on the proposed plant’s scale, air emissions, and the need for transparency and meaningful opportunities to question state regulators.
Special thanks to Lost Pines Pickleball Club for generously hosting the event, and to the League of Independent Voters of Texas for providing the livestream and recording so more neighbors could take part.
The town hall made the news.
KVUE and KXAN both covered the October 20 town hall. Their reports brought residents’ concerns about the proposed development and the need for public answers to a wider audience.
- Bastrop County residents press for transparency on proposed data centers, gas plant
- Bastrop community pushes for transparency around 'Project Longhorn' data center
October 20–21 is shown where the available listings differ on these stories’ publication dates.
The project is getting sustained media attention.
This October, local television stations, regional newspapers and data-center industry publications have reported on the proposed development. Coverage has examined new building filings, the gas plant’s scale and permitting, and residents’ requests for public answers.
Thank you to the reporters following this story. Share their coverage with a neighbor who is still getting up to speed.
Check out the additional media coverage · 21 links
Additional October reporting, interviews, republications and roundups are collected below in date order. Some publishers require a subscription. Republications and roundups are labeled.
- Data center eyed by Anthropic could break ground soon in Bastrop County
- Plans filed for $366M Pacifico-BlackChamber data center
- $366 million data center campus tied to AI giant moves ahead in Bastrop
- $366M Cedar Creek Data Center Tied to Anthropic Clears State RoadblockAutomated roundup. Its headline overstates the filing: building registration does not establish air-permit approval.
- Project Longhorn: A $366M Data Center Was Filed in Cedar Creek. Here's What the State Record SaysRoundup drawing on previously linked coverage.
- Anthropic-linked $366m data center project filed for in Cedar Creek, Texas
- Bastrop on the Record: A New Filing, a Court Agenda, and a TCEQ Meeting
- Project Longhorn Files $366M First Building at Anthropic-Linked Texas Campus
- Bastrop County residents urge transparency on proposed data center, gas plant project
- Bastrop County commissioners seek TCEQ public meeting for proposed power plant
- Bastrop County commissioners urge TCEQ to hold public meeting on data centers, gas plant
- Bastrop County commissioners OK request for TCEQ meeting on gas plant concerns
- Controversial Bastrop gas plant for Claude maker Anthropic faces new pressure. Here's why.
- Commissioners push TCEQ for public meeting on Cedar Creek power plant
- Bastrop County asks state to hear residents on Cedar Creek gas plantRoundup drawing on previously linked coverage.
- Bastrop County commissioners seek TCEQ public meeting for proposed power plantKXAN republication; the original report is linked above.
- Bastrop County Asks State to Hold Public Meeting on Gas Plant It Cannot ZoneRoundup drawing on previously linked coverage.
- She was building her dream home. Then came a data center's 'minor' power plant on a shortcut permit
- County asking for public meeting on proposed power plant
- Texas continued processing some data center permits after Gov. Abbott's pause, records showRelated statewide coverage of the permitting pause.
- Off Script: Keaton Peters discusses the Cedar Creek permitting investigationInterview in the “Inside the Story” segment. The episode’s main headline concerns a different segment.
2 · Take action by November 2
Speak up for power-plant carbon-pollution protections.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking comments on a proposal to rescind its greenhouse-gas findings for fossil-fuel power plants and repeal the remaining related federal standards. The proposal argues that the Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to regulate power-plant emissions in response to global climate-change concerns.
Docket: EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124
- Read the background. Public Citizen explains its opposition to the rollback.
- Read the proposal and submit a comment. Open the Federal Register notice and select “Submit a public comment.”
- Use your own words. Ask EPA to retain power-plant carbon-pollution protections. Explain why climate impacts matter to your household and community, and address the proposal’s reasoning.
This is a national rulemaking, separate from Pacifico’s TCEQ air-permit proceeding. This comment window concerns the new EPA proposal.
3 · A new land record
A new deed names DDWK Holdings as the grantee.
Two pages of a recorded special warranty deed dated October 21, 2026, obtained from the Bastrop County deed office on October 26, 2026, identify a transfer of a 2,846.68-acre Bastrop County tract from Roger Donald Wallace to DDWK Holdings, LP, a Texas limited partnership. The instrument number is 202617542.
DDWK was established well before this transfer: the Texas Comptroller’s entity record lists its Texas Secretary of State registration date as August 28, 2025—more than a year before the deed.
The deed describes the property as being contributed to DDWK to facilitate a planned, future Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange. It lists DDWK Management GP, LLC as general partner, and gives the same mailing address for Wallace and the partnership.
What does that tell us?
The deed records a conveyance to DDWK. It does not establish a completed purchase by Pacifico or BlackChamber, identify the partnership’s ultimate owners, or tell us whether a separate purchase agreement is contingent on an air permit.
Our reading: The shared mailing address and the deed’s contribution language suggest Wallace may be arranging the land’s ownership structure for the planned exchange. The potential benefit is tax deferral: a qualifying Section 1031 exchange can postpone tax on a gain when business or investment real estate is exchanged for other qualifying real estate. Moving the tract into DDWK may put it in the entity intended to carry out that later transaction and prepare the ownership paperwork ahead of a future closing. Those preparations could take place while a developer purchase and any permit-related conditions remain unresolved.
That is an inference from these pages. They do not confirm Wallace’s full reasons or whether the planned exchange will qualify for tax deferral; DDWK’s ultimate ownership and the status of any developer purchase remain unverified.
This record does not establish that an air permit has been approved or that a decision is imminent.
Sources: photographs of deed pages 1–2 supplied to Lost Pines Watch; the Texas Comptroller’s entity record linked above; and IRS guidance on Section 1031 exchanges. The October 26 retrieval date is confirmed by the organizer. The instrument is marked as 15 pages; the legal-description exhibits were not part of the excerpts reviewed here. The deed’s acreage has not been reconciled to the project’s previously filed parcel boundary.
4 · See the wider region
Explore the bigger picture on our expanded map.
Our community map now includes two Central Texas layers: Utility-scale power generation and Large-scale data centers. They show operating sites, construction and documented proposals alongside the local community context.
Both regional layers are on by default. Use View Central Texas sites to zoom out and explore the region, then select a marker for sources, status and location notes. Green circles identify solar generation; other power projects use brown circles, and data centers use blue squares.
The map helps residents examine the regional scale of development. Its inventory is based on dated records and is not exhaustive. A nearby power plant does not, by itself, establish a dedicated supply arrangement with a data center.
5 · Help spread awareness
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We regularly post more project news, photos, reporting and community updates on Facebook than we can fit into these website updates. Follow Lost Pines Watch to keep up with the conversation between longer updates.
Like, share and comment on our posts to help spread awareness. Share a story with your neighbors, add your questions and experiences, and invite friends to follow the page. Every thoughtful contribution helps more people learn what is proposed and how they can take part.
Prepared October 26, 2026. Town hall themes are supported by the linked reporting; attendance, venue and livestream/recording credits, approximate fundraising progress and the pending IRS application are confirmed by the organizer. EPA’s notice supplies the proposal and comment deadline. Deed findings are limited to the two pages linked above; the Texas Comptroller supplies DDWK’s registration date, and IRS guidance explains the general tax-deferral concept. Map status and location limits appear with its sources.