Brazoria County, located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf Coast, hosts multiple data centers that benefit from the region's proximity to petrochemical infrastructure and established power generation facilities.
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But Brazoria County's "washing machine" complaints and Vantage's 1,200-acre, 1.4 GW Frontier campus outside Abilene show the friction is already here.
Sixty-five miles southwest of Houston, Brazoria County commissioners unanimously rejected four 10-year, 100% property tax abatements for Nightpeak Energy's $3.5 billion Old Ocean campus: two 310 MW datacenters paired with two 310 MW natural gas plants on 158 acres.
The deal's first $36 billion tranche also includes a $2.1 billion deepwater crude export terminal off Brazoria County, Texas, tied to the Texas GulfLink project.