By Anton Riecher
High tech data center projects continue to spread across Medina County with the commissioners’ court scheduled to vote Nov. 3 on a proposed 80 percent property tax abatement for a $600 million facility to be built west of Castroville.
Backed by Dallas-based CyrusOne, this latest digital infrastructure data center is the eighth such project either proposed or under actual construction in the county.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Larry Sittre referred to the pending agreement being negotiated with CyrusOne as “one of the best ones we’ve seen so far.”
The new CyrusOne site, located approximately 3.75 miles west of Castroville, will be the home of a 500,000 square-foot data center facility. Plans allow for the construction of a second such structure at the site in the more distant future.
At the commissioners meeting Sept. 22, the court voted unanimously to designate the 244-acre site located in precinct 2 between U.S. 90 and County Road 4516 as a reinvestment zone under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code. Commissioners took similar action in January with regard to the Project Cinco data center under construction near Lytle.
A reinvestment zone is an agreement between a taxpayer, typically a business, and a local taxing unit such as the county that exempts or abates from taxation all or part of the increase in the value of real property and/or tangible personal property.
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