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Guadalupe County Commissioners decline tax abatement for $10B data center project Cindy Aguirre-Herrera & Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- There will not be a new data center built in Guadalupe County—at least not yet. The Guadalupe County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 on Tuesday to decline a tax abatement agreement with the company CloudBurst, which plans to build data center complex valued at more than $10 billion. The Cloudburst campus would have been built in phases, with the initial phase starting by the end of the year. It includes plans for 10-12 AIReady buildings totaling approximately three million square feet. The location would be built off of State Highway 123 in northern Guadalupe County. CloudBurst Cofounder Cynthia Thompson says the facility would generate 480
permanent jobs by year six. “Job creation, so again there’s telecommunications jobs, construction, power and infrastructure jobs, and technology and manufacturing. For every job we create, we create 6.4 indirect jobs for every dollar of direct income we generate, 3.3 dollars of labor and income locally. So again, four-hundred and eighty jobs - a total of sixhundred when built,” said Thompson. The 10-year tax break called for an abatement of 90 percent of all county taxes in years one through five. It would reduce by 10 percentage points each year after then dropping down to 40 percent in year 10. The full appraised taxable value would be owed starting in year 11. Project, pg. 3