EdgeConneX, the global data center operator, is developing multiple large-scale campuses in Cedar Creek, Bastrop County, Texas, with filings and local reporting tying the projects through affiliated entities to a multi-phase buildout spanning roughly 1,500 acres, up to 19 buildings, and several billion dollars of privately funded construction. The project was first reported by Austin-area business press via Score Property Group and picked up by TexReporter, US Data Center Projects, the San Antonio Express-News, and the Austin Business Journal.

Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filings cover four one-story buildings at 6682 FM 535, EDCAUS11, EDCAUS12, EDCAUS13, and EDCAUS14, each approximately 730,000 square feet and each carrying an estimated construction cost of $700 million, totaling $2.8 billion for that property alone. A separate campus configuration includes Building AUS02, a roughly 578,000-square-foot facility valued at approximately $440 million. A third development, the Pacifico Cedar Creek Campus at 382 Earl Callahan Road, is planned as a single-story structure at 2,614,000 square feet.

Construction on EDCAUS11 and EDCAUS12 is scheduled to begin June 30, while EDCAUS13 and EDCAUS14 are scheduled to start September 1, 2026.

EdgeConneX is a global data center operator with a track record of developing hyperscale and large-scale campuses for major cloud, content, and AI tenants across North America and Europe. In Cedar Creek, the company is building under affiliated entities, a common structure for large multi-campus developments, and has already secured at least one named anchor tenant: CoreWeave, which is reported to lease Building AUS02 under Bastrop County tax abatement records. Anthropic is separately reported to be in lease discussions for the Pacifico Cedar Creek Campus. The broader Bastrop County investment is expected to produce more than 200 permanent jobs carrying roughly $16 million in annual payroll.

The aggregation of roughly 1,500 acres across multiple campuses is not simply a large project; it is a long-duration platform. Buildings are scheduled for completion between late 2028 and early 2029, meaning active construction will overlap across multiple phases simultaneously. At least one analysis of the Bastrop County sites references integrated private energy generation, which points toward on-site power infrastructure beyond standard utility service. For operators and contractors alike, that means substation work, generator pad installations, fuel logistics, and battery or UPS systems running in parallel with civil, structural, and MEP scopes over several years.

A multi-campus buildout of this scale is among the largest construction programs ever sited in Central Texas outside of semiconductor manufacturing. The electrical scope alone, across more than 5.3 million square feet of planned data center floor, will require sustained crews of licensed master and journeyman electricians over multiple years. Low-voltage and data technicians, HVAC and mechanical trades, and civil infrastructure crews will all see multi-phase demand.

The non-obvious staffing reality here is that Cedar Creek's greenfield environment and Bastrop County's tax abatements make the site a natural staging hub. Contractors who win work here can warehouse equipment and rotate specialist teams between Cedar Creek, the Taylor/Williamson County chip fab corridor, and San Antonio hyperscale sites, sustaining high-skill data center build teams across Texas markets rather than cycling them in and out expensively. That dynamic tends to attract traveling data center subcontractors, the same firms already cycling through Phoenix, Northern Virginia, and Dallas, which means local Bastrop County contractors will compete alongside national specialists rather than leading the work by default. Experienced superintendents and foremen are the immediate bottleneck; the closest deep bench is Austin's booming tech and industrial construction market, but it is already stretched across Tesla's Gigafactory near Del Valle and other large infrastructure programs.

For a full breakdown of roles, pay bands, and where the talent pools are, see our guide to hiring data center talent in Bastrop County, Texas. Sources: Score Property Group's Austin-Bastrop data center market summary, which first reported the activity, and trade and local coverage from TexReporter, US Data Center Projects, the San Antonio Express-News, and the Austin Business Journal.