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Abilene council approves reinvestment zone and tax abatements to expand data-center campus
Summary
The Abilene City Council approved creation of a ~615-acre reinvestment zone and three tax-abatement agreements to support expansion of an existing data-center campus, including two new data-center buildings and a gas turbine generation plant, with city officials citing job and investment targets and residents raising transparency and quality-of-life concerns.
Abilene's City Council voted to create Reinvestment Zone RZ25-1 and approved three tax-abatement agreements to support an expansion of a large data-center campus, after residents raised concerns about transparency, annexation and local impacts.
City Manager Emma Crawford told the council the reinvestment zone covers roughly 614.91 acres and meets the criteria in the Texas Tax Code chapter 312 and the city's resolution on tax abatements. Crawford said the expansion covers three projects: Phase 9, a minimum 100,000-square-foot data center with a minimum taxable assessed value of $200 million and a minimum private construction investment of $350 million (with a $500 million target); Phase 10 with identical terms; and a gas-turbine electric generation plant also with a $200 million minimum assessed…
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