A major data center project is planned for the Cedar Creek area of Bastrop County, southeast of Austin. The project is listed as EDCAUS11 in a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing. The filing describes a new 729,537-square-foot, one-story data center with supporting office space and related site improvements.
The estimated cost is $700 million, making this a much larger project than a typical roadside or retail development. Construction is listed to begin in June 2026, with completion expected by December 2028.
The images below look back at a site that has remained largely rural for decades. The timeline starts in 1995 and continues into recent views, showing open fields, scattered homes, tree cover, and a quiet FM 535 frontage.
In January 1995, the future data center site along FM 535 was still rural. It had open fields, scattered homes, tree cover, and narrow country-road intersections shaping the area. The image shows how far the property sat from the world of server farms and high-tech infrastructure that the planned $700 million project now represents.
By March 2025, the FM 535 site still looked mostly rural. Open pasture, scattered homes, tree cover, and a few small buildings sat near the road. That contrast makes the planned data center stand out. The filing points to a nearly 730,000-square-foot project in an area that still feels more like countryside than a tech campus.
This November 2024 view looks toward the future data center site from the FM 535 and FM 20 intersection in Cedar Creek. The Dollar General at the edge of the property is a useful landmark. Everything around it still feels open and rural. That makes the proposed project’s scale hit harder. A $700 million data center would bring a very different kind of development to this Bastrop County corner.
Last Updated on May 28, 2026 by F.E.M