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Sendero Is Open for Business: Eight New Eateries, 342 Apartments, and a Marriott Rising on SH 71 Pacifico Energy Releases Cedar Creek Campus Fact Sheet: No Tax Incentives, Self-Powered, Minimal Water What Is Being Built in Bastrop County, Texas Right Now (2026) How ACC, Texas State, and Bastrop ISD Are Partnering on the Workforce of 2030 SpaceX IPO Confirms Bastrop as Starlink's Manufacturing Anchor: What the Nasdaq Filing Means for the County Bastrop County's Environmental Scorecard: How Data Centers, Studios, and Fabs Are Managing Land, Water, and Air Inside the Bastrop County Transportation Blueprint: SH 130, SH 71, and the Road Network That $10 Billion Demands The Quality of Life Multiplier: 8 New Dining Options Headed to Sendero in Bastrop Small Business Multiplier: How the Big Movers Are Creating Opportunities for Bastrop County Entrepreneurs Will the New $10 Billion Tech Boom Drain Bastrop County's Resources? Housing the Workforce: What 3,000+ New Jobs Mean for Bastrop County's Residential Market The 12 Trades and Degrees Bastrop County Students Should Pursue Right Now The Bastrop County Site Selection Scorecard: Power, Water, Fiber, Workforce, Permitting Parks, Ranches, and Friday Night Lights: The Lifestyle That Growth Is Designed to Protect How Bastrop County Is Preserving Rural Character While Adding $10 Billion in Development From Cotton to Chips: A Short Economic History of Bastrop County and Why This Boom Is Different Greenport Explained: How a $10B Semiconductor and Tech Campus Comes to a 1,200-Acre Texas Site Water, Wastewater, and the Invisible Infrastructure That Makes or Breaks a $10 Billion Corridor Permitting Timelines Compared: Bastrop County vs. Five Other Texas Data Center Markets Wyldwood Studios and the Texas Film Economy: Why Zachary Levi Chose Bastrop Over Atlanta The 381 Agreement Playbook: How Bastrop County Structures Public-Private Deals Without Giving Away the Farm ERCOT Zone South Explained: How Bastrop County Became the Power Grid's Next Sweet Spot Line 204 Brings Hollywood Production Infrastructure to Central Texas SpaceX in Bastrop: What the $280M Starlink Expansion Means Beyond Boca Chica Sendero Is Open for Business: Eight New Eateries, 342 Apartments, and a Marriott Rising on SH 71 Pacifico Energy Releases Cedar Creek Campus Fact Sheet: No Tax Incentives, Self-Powered, Minimal Water What Is Being Built in Bastrop County, Texas Right Now (2026) How ACC, Texas State, and Bastrop ISD Are Partnering on the Workforce of 2030 SpaceX IPO Confirms Bastrop as Starlink's Manufacturing Anchor: What the Nasdaq Filing Means for the County Bastrop County's Environmental Scorecard: How Data Centers, Studios, and Fabs Are Managing Land, Water, and Air Inside the Bastrop County Transportation Blueprint: SH 130, SH 71, and the Road Network That $10 Billion Demands The Quality of Life Multiplier: 8 New Dining Options Headed to Sendero in Bastrop Small Business Multiplier: How the Big Movers Are Creating Opportunities for Bastrop County Entrepreneurs Will the New $10 Billion Tech Boom Drain Bastrop County's Resources? Housing the Workforce: What 3,000+ New Jobs Mean for Bastrop County's Residential Market The 12 Trades and Degrees Bastrop County Students Should Pursue Right Now The Bastrop County Site Selection Scorecard: Power, Water, Fiber, Workforce, Permitting Parks, Ranches, and Friday Night Lights: The Lifestyle That Growth Is Designed to Protect How Bastrop County Is Preserving Rural Character While Adding $10 Billion in Development From Cotton to Chips: A Short Economic History of Bastrop County and Why This Boom Is Different Greenport Explained: How a $10B Semiconductor and Tech Campus Comes to a 1,200-Acre Texas Site Water, Wastewater, and the Invisible Infrastructure That Makes or Breaks a $10 Billion Corridor Permitting Timelines Compared: Bastrop County vs. Five Other Texas Data Center Markets Wyldwood Studios and the Texas Film Economy: Why Zachary Levi Chose Bastrop Over Atlanta The 381 Agreement Playbook: How Bastrop County Structures Public-Private Deals Without Giving Away the Farm ERCOT Zone South Explained: How Bastrop County Became the Power Grid's Next Sweet Spot Line 204 Brings Hollywood Production Infrastructure to Central Texas SpaceX in Bastrop: What the $280M Starlink Expansion Means Beyond Boca Chica
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economic development
Sep 11, 2026
Pacifico Energy Releases Cedar Creek Campus Fact Sheet: No Tax Incentives, Self-Powered, Minimal Water
Pacifico Energy publishes a community fact sheet for its $2.2B Cedar Creek data center campus in Bastrop County. The document confirms zero tax incentives, self-generated power with no ERCOT draw, sealed-loop cooling with just 23 LUEs of water usage, and community commitments including Dark Sky lighting, Hire Local hiring, and 13 acres of dedicated community land.
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economic development
Jun 29, 2026
What Is Being Built in Bastrop County, Texas Right Now (2026)
From an 11 million square foot SpaceX campus to a $2 billion data center corridor, Texas jet engines, and two Hollywood studios, here is a grounded look at the companies building in Bastrop County in 2026 and what comes next.
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education
May 26, 2026
How ACC, Texas State, and Bastrop ISD Are Partnering on the Workforce of 2030
Inside the three-step talent pipeline from Bastrop ISD's P-TECH academies through ACC Elgin and on to Texas State University. The aligned partnership building the workforce that the Big Movers projects need by 2030.
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The Rural Prosperity Equation: Myth vs. Reality in the AI Boom
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economic development · May 19
SpaceX IPO Confirms Bastrop as Starlink's Manufacturing Anchor: What the Nasdaq Filing Means for the County
infrastructure · May 6
Bastrop County's Environmental Scorecard: How Data Centers, Studios, and Fabs Are Managing Land, Water, and Air
infrastructure · May 6
Inside the Bastrop County Transportation Blueprint: SH 130, SH 71, and the Road Network That $10 Billion Demands
quality of-life · May 6
The Quality of Life Multiplier: 8 New Dining Options Headed to Sendero in Bastrop
economic development · May 6
Small Business Multiplier: How the Big Movers Are Creating Opportunities for Bastrop County Entrepreneurs
infrastructure · May 4
Will the New $10 Billion Tech Boom Drain Bastrop County's Resources?
economic development · May 3
Housing the Workforce: What 3,000+ New Jobs Mean for Bastrop County's Residential Market
education · Apr 29
The 12 Trades and Degrees Bastrop County Students Should Pursue Right Now
economic development · Apr 29
The Bastrop County Site Selection Scorecard: Power, Water, Fiber, Workforce, Permitting
economic development · Apr 29
Parks, Ranches, and Friday Night Lights: The Lifestyle That Growth Is Designed to Protect
economic development · Apr 29
How Bastrop County Is Preserving Rural Character While Adding $10 Billion in Development
economic development · Apr 25
From Cotton to Chips: A Short Economic History of Bastrop County and Why This Boom Is Different
economic development · Apr 18
Greenport Explained: How a $10B Semiconductor and Tech Campus Comes to a 1,200-Acre Texas Site
infrastructure · Apr 17
Water, Wastewater, and the Invisible Infrastructure That Makes or Breaks a $10 Billion Corridor
data centers · Apr 10
Permitting Timelines Compared: Bastrop County vs. Five Other Texas Data Center Markets
film entertainment · Apr 10
Wyldwood Studios and the Texas Film Economy: Why Zachary Levi Chose Bastrop Over Atlanta
economic development · Apr 9
The 381 Agreement Playbook: How Bastrop County Structures Public-Private Deals Without Giving Away the Farm
infrastructure · Apr 1
ERCOT Zone South Explained: How Bastrop County Became the Power Grid's Next Sweet Spot
film entertainment · Mar 18
Line 204 Brings Hollywood Production Infrastructure to Central Texas
infrastructure · Mar 17
SpaceX in Bastrop: What the $280M Starlink Expansion Means Beyond Boca Chica
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Amazon's 1,000-Acre Land Buy Deepens Texas Data Center Bench
U.S. Department of Labor
DOL launches website to build AI skills and expand AI-focused Apprenticeship programs
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Bastrop continues massive infrastructure expansion amid tech influx
Texas Economic Development
Why tier-one data centers are choosing Central Texas
KXAN News
Film and entertainment studios break ground on multi-million dollar Bastrop campus
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