BlackChamber: Project Longhorn Expansion

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Future facility in planning stagefacility with additional land secured and prospective expansion planned
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BlackChamber: Project Longhorn Expansion

Year Planned: 2029
Utility Provider: Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative

Site History

  • July 2026: Pacifico Cedar Creek LLC filed a JETI incentive application with Bastrop County for the campus.
  • August 2026: Pacifico filed an air permit registration with TCEQ for the on-site power plant.
  • August 2026: The developers withdrew their county and school district tax abatement applications and plan to pay full property taxes.
  • September 2026: Governor Abbott directed state agencies to pause data center approvals. The pause covers the power plant's air permit registration.
  • October 7, 2026: Building One was filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. No second building has been filed yet.

Project Profile

  • Data center developer: Black Chamber Partners, an affiliate of BlackChamber Group
  • Power plant developer: Pacifico Energy
  • Campus: About 2,800 acres across eight parcels
  • Building Two: Planned, similar in size to the 498,165 sq ft Building One
  • Future buildings: The site plan shows room for two more buildings.
  • Tenant: Not named. Anthropic is reportedly in talks to lease.

Utility

  • The campus plans to run on power from an on-site gas-fired plant, independent of the ERCOT grid.
  • Project filings also list Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative interconnection equipment.
  • The plant's air permit registration is pending and on hold under the state's data center permitting pause.

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0.86 miles BlackChamber: Project Longhorn Building 1
Project Longhorn Building One is the first of two planned data center buildings on a roughly 2,800-acre campus in Cedar Creek, Bastrop County, about 26 miles southeast of downtown Austin. Black Chamber Partners is developing the data center. Pacifico Energy is developing an on-site gas-fired power plant to serve the campus.
8.55 miles Campus PrimeInterested in this information?Contact us
Amazon Data Services has further expanded its Texas footprint by acquiring 1,300 acres of land near Cedar Creek in Bastrop County, located roughly 30 miles southeast of Austin.
8.89 miles EdgeConneX: AUS04
This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
9.00 miles EdgeConneX: AUS02
The upcoming AUS02 facility is designed as a massive two-story structure, set to encompass 578,000 square feet (approximately 54,000 square meters) of high-density data center space.
9.11 miles EdgeConneX: AUS03
This facility is part of the EdgeConneX data center campus in Bastrop, Texas.
9.30 miles EdgeConneX: AUS12
EdgeConneX is developing two new 730,000 sq ft data centers, EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, in Bastrop County, Texas.
9.44 miles EdgeConneX: AUS01
Located in the tech-forward Cedar Creek area of Bastrop County, EdgeConneX AUS01 is the high-performance anchor of a massive new data center campus.
9.47 miles EdgeConneX: AUS11
EdgeConneX is developing two new 730,000 sq ft data centers, EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12, in Bastrop County, Texas.
10.68 miles Prime ValleyInterested in this information?Contact us
Bastrop Project One, an active high-density cryptocurrency mining facility developed by Kevin Hsu (founder of Ocean Blockchain and AcroHash) in Elgin, Bastrop County, features a 150,000-square-foot footprint.
15.33 miles Tesla: Austin Dojo
Data center is reportedly on the South Side of the massive Tesla Gigafactory.
18.57 miles CyrusOne Austin II
Supports 250 wpsf with the ability to support over 1,000 wpsf Raised Floor: 48"
18.59 miles DataCanopy: Austin, TX
Data Canopy's Austin, TX facility delivers exceptional connectivity and 100% power uptime within a state-of-the-art environment secured by industry-leading features.
18.65 miles 7620 Metro - Digital Realty
The Digital facility is on 11.28 acres of land and features a 62,000-sq-ft building. The data center is full, with 100% of the space occupied with long-term lease tenants but there is additional land build another 135,000 sq ft facility.
18.68 miles Digital Realty: AUS11
The building has 75,000 gross square feet with a 30-foot clearance height capable of supporting two floors inside the building. The site has diverse underground electrical ductbanks from a nearby substations. The facility offers access to seven fiber optic providers in close proximity to the building
18.73 miles 7401 E Ben White - Digital Realty
7401 E. Ben White Blvd. is a three-building portfolio comprised of two single-story data centers and one single-story call center, which are located in southeast Austin.
18.77 miles CyrusOne: Austin III
CyrusOne's AUS3 data center is projected to be the company's largest facility in Austin, spanning 172,000 total square feet, which includes 120,000 square feet of colocation space (CSF) and over 25,000 square feet of Class A office space.
18.79 miles CyrusOne Austin I
Also known as the Austin Met Center. CyrusOne has announced that this facility will close. Customers will be moved to other CyrusOne sites in Austin.
18.82 miles Switch: Austin 1 (ADC)
Operated since 2003. Austin 1 is located on the Southeast side of Austin, on Data Foundry’s Disaster Recovery Campus.
18.87 miles LightEdge Austin2 Burleson
The site was formerly operated by OnRamp before being acquired in July 2018.
19.02 miles Lumen Austin 1 (4207 Smith School)
19.14 miles Switch: Smith School Rd
Switch Inc. reportedly intends to build a 300,000-square-foot (27,870 sqm) data center alongside a new Austin Energy substation.
19.18 miles Switch: Texas 2
2nd building on the former Data Foundry Campus
19.20 miles Switch: Texas 1
Built in 2011, Texas 1 resides on the Data Ranch. The 40-acre campus has plenty of expansion capability. The campus can grow to over 1 million sqft and 100 MW of power. The first phase of Data Foundry's Texas 2 site was opened in 2018.
19.58 miles Core Scientific: Austin, TX
In 2024, Core Scientific acquired this facility in Austin, Texas. The site was formerly used to house Hewlett Packard's hosting business, including high-performance computing.
19.61 miles CoreWeave: Austin, TX
CoreWeave has secured an 8-year lease agreement with Core Scientific for a 118,000 square feet of compute space at 3301 Hibbetts Road in Austin, Texas.
19.62 miles LightEdge Austin1 Montopolis
OnRamp Staffs the site 24/7/365 Power Densities up to 30kW / Rack Outside of 100 year and 500 Year Flood Plains
19.62 miles Lumen Austin 4

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The BlackChamber Group is a leading alternative asset manager focused on the development of digital infrastructure assets that was formed in 2019 by its three Managing Partners.

Headquartered in Washington D.C., the BlackChamber Group provides real estate advisory and management services through commingled funds, standalone co-investment vehicles and joint ventures.

Black Chamber Partners, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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