The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Freestone County
Mixed Data Center Policies
Texas combines substantial, long-term sales-tax breaks for qualifying large data centers with grid-connection studies, fees, and infrastructure costs that can make projects slower and more expensive. Some large facilities may also face emergency power reductions or grid-stability requirements; the tax benefits have demanding eligibility conditions.
Rating and summary from Texas statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Freestone County.
Incentives
Tax benefits
Reportedly grants a county tax abatement to C1 Freestone 1, LLC for its data-center project; executed percentage and duration remain unverified. Approval report.
current law · County project: Reported project-specific zone; legal boundaries and operative scope unverified. See Source Review.Project-specific zone approval reported; signed order unverified.Freestone County Reinvestment Zone No. 12 — C1 Freestone, LLC Data Center (2026)
current law · County project: Reported C1 Freestone 1, LLC site-specific incentive; executed legal description unverified.Local newspapers report approval of a tax-abatement agreement with C1 Freestone 1, LLC, an affiliate of CyrusOne.Freestone County–C1 Freestone, LLC Data Center Tax Abatement Agreement (2026)
People behind it
- C1 Freestone 1, LLC
Reported abatement applicant and CyrusOne affiliate.
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Local reporting says the court approved the tax abatement. Percentage, eligible property, duration, payments and final executed conditions remain unverified.
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