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.
Galveston 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 Galveston County.
Specific to Galveston County only.
expired · County project: Galveston County government’s IT operationsApproves a co-location license agreement with Fibertown DC, LLC to provide comprehensive co-location and secondary data-center space in Bryan, Texas, using Harris County’s interlocal agreement for RFP Job No. 18/0257; the county record identifies it as a General Fund expense contract with a current-year budget of $82,000 and projected spending of $81,576.Galveston County File No. 24-1892 — Co-Location License Agreement with Fibertown DC, LLC (2024)
What this means
This is a county contract to use colocation and backup data-center space in Bryan, not a rule about building or operating data centers in Galveston County (“use a comprehensive colocation/secondary data center space solution in Bryan, Texas”). It may provide business to the service provider, but it adds no meaningful requirements or benefits for data-center development generally.
People behind it
- Galveston County Information Technology
Submitted and administered the request for approval of the co-location license agreement.
- Fibertown DC, LLC
Vendor and counterparty providing the co-location and secondary data center space solution in Bryan, Texas.
- Harris County
Provided the interlocal agreement framework used for the procurement under RFP Job No. 18/0257.
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Authorizes Galveston County to enter a one-year Co-Location License Agreement with Fibertown DC, LLC for comprehensive colocation and secondary data-center space in Bryan, Texas, using Harris County’s interlocal agreement for RFP Job No. 18/0257. The agreement runs from December 23, 2024, through December 22, 2025, has no automatic renewal, and is supported by a current-year budget of $82,000 with projected expenditures of $81,576.
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