Project dossier · Cedar Creek (Bastrop County), Texas

BCG Cedar Creek Campus Awaiting decision

Black Chamber Partners (a BlackChamber Group affiliate) and co-developer Pacifico Energy plan a 2,842-acre data center campus at 382 Earl Callahan Road near Cedar Creek with a 710 MW gas-fired energy facility, a ~$2.2 billion investment with two 100% county tax-abatement applications under review; construction is estimated for September 2026 through October 2028. Neighboring property owners filed motions July 20 asking TCEQ to overturn two construction stormwater permits issued in mid-July.

Key facts

Operator: BlackChamber Group
Filing LLC: Black Chamber Partners
Size: 2,842 ac
Location: Cedar Creek (Bastrop County), Texas
Hearing: 2026-08-24
Stage today: Awaiting decision

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Heard 2026-08-24; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.

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What has happened so far (12 events)

2026-06-18permit
Pacifico's engineer submitted two mass-grading permit applications to Bastrop County (one for the data center campus, one for the power facility), both in preliminary review. · source
2026-06-24filing
Pacifico Cedar Creek LLC filed an application with the Texas Comptroller for a JETI (Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act) agreement, listing a $2.2 billion investment, 25 permanent jobs and $6.2 million in annual payroll. · source
2026-07-15coverage
Community Impact published its first detailed report on the proposed 2,842-acre, $2.2 billion Cedar Creek data center and 710 MW gas power campus near Earl Callahan Road, with two 100% county tax-abatement applications under review. · source
2026-07-20filing
Neighboring property owners (the Jenkins and Lewis families) filed motions asking TCEQ to overturn two construction stormwater permits issued to Black Chamber and Pacifico Energy for the BCG Cedar Creek Campus. · source
2026-07-22protest
More than 100 residents attended a town hall at Bastrop's Hampton Inn and Suites, organized by the League of Independent Voters of Texas, calling for guardrails on data center development including the Cedar Creek projects; attorney Nick Lealos proposed a 'Bastrop Bill of Rights' framework. · source
2026-07-23permit
Bastrop County issued a site-preparation permit to Pacifico Energy for the gas-fired power facility component of the Cedar Creek campus. · source
2026-07-27hearing
A Bastrop County Commissioners Court public hearing was scheduled on proposed tax-abatement guidelines that would require companies to disclose environmental impacts and create at least 25 local jobs. · source
2026-07-28coverage
The Cool Down published a national report on bipartisan backlash against AI data centers in Bastrop County, noting Texas has overtaken Virginia as the world's largest data center market, with over 700 facilities potentially added in the next decade. · source
2026-07-29coverage
The Elgin Courier reported on the community-led town hall calling for greater data center oversight in Bastrop County, noting that the Pacifico Energy data center proposal remained under county review alongside the EdgeConneX campuses. · source
2026-08-03moratorium
Gov. Abbott directed PUC of Texas and ERCOT to audit roughly 250-300 data-center projects seeking grid interconnection statewide, pausing new approvals; Texas Tribune coverage specifically cites the Pacifico Energy/BlackChamber Cedar Creek project among those under scrutiny, though its on-site gas generation may make it behind-the-meter and exempt from the ERCOT interconnection audit. · source
2026-08-10hearing
Bastrop County commissioners tabled a resolution requesting expanded county authority over large-scale industrial projects; it returns at the Aug 24 meeting, 9 a.m., Bastrop County Courthouse. · source
2026-08-11coverage
Community Impact reported that the Black Chamber stormwater permit lists an estimated construction period of September 1, 2026 through October 1, 2028 for the 304-acre BCG Cedar Creek Campus portion of the 2,842-acre development, and that TCEQ generally has 45 days to act on the motions to overturn or they are denied by default. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (2 filed · 11 places to look)

Permits already on file (2)

Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.

2026-07-23
Bastrop County issued a site-preparation permit to Pacifico Energy for the gas-fired power facility component of the Cedar Creek campus. · source
2026-06-18
Pacifico's engineer submitted two mass-grading permit applications to Bastrop County (one for the data center campus, one for the power facility), both in preliminary review. · source

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search Cedar Creek (Bastrop County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Cedar Creek (Bastrop County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 30.090, -97.500 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “BCG Cedar Creek Campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/bastrop-bcg-cedar-creek-campus, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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