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05/30/2026

Riot in January announced the potential $1 billion lease and services agreement with AMD. AMD just exercised a portion of its expansion option on its lease and doubled the size of its lease at the former Alcoa aluminum plant in Rockdale, Texas.
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This article explores the deal that went down in one of Texas' most notable megasites.

05/29/2026

Elon Musk's $55 billion Terafab facility targeting Grimes County near College Station in Texas
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Elon Musk is betting big on chipmaking north of Houston — but locals and their leaders have questions. Here's what to know about a proposed $55 billion facility.

05/28/2026

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is considering Hutto for a massive project dubbed as "Project Blue Hub". It was described by officials as a 1.3 million-SF manufacturing, research-and-development, warehouse and logistics project. It was said to be bringing more than 2,000 jobs with an average salary of $88,000 over the next five years. The capital investment was pegged at more than $650 million.
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We're tracking another potential mega-deal for the region.

05/26/2026

Amazon confirmed that the company purchased around 1,200 acres in Bastrop County, possibly for a Datacenter. Since 2010 the company has invested $84.3 billion in Texas, where it has created 86,000 full- and part-time jobs, along with 65,000 indirect jobs. That includes locations in Pflugerville, Round Rock and San Marcos, among many others.
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The land was previously earmarked for a master-planned community. Now, it could become part of Amazon's global network of 900+ data centers.

05/25/2026

Elon Musk's business empire appears to be growing again in Bastrop County. The company is "standing up one of the largest solar cell manufacturing facilities in the world" as part of the company's quest to build space infrastructure to enable large-scale artificial intelligence data centers in orbit. Those platforms, it notes, require massive amounts of "reliable, high-efficiency" solar power for intensive computing workloads.
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The factory will produce solar cells for an ambitious goal: powering AI data centers in orbit.

05/23/2026

Elon's announcement that he plans to start a $20 billion Terafab in Austin sent shockwaves through the local economy. It may end up being 10 times bigger than the Tesla gigafactory, which is the largest structure in the region. The chipmaking operation will start with a smaller advanced technology site near the Tesla Inc. gigafactory in eastern Travis County.
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The Terafab may be 10 times bigger than the gigafactory here.

05/16/2026

The latest Census Bureau data show that some of the fastest-growing cities are often sitting just outside a larger city and centered on booming master-planned communities. 3 Austin cities dominated the list as Americans flock to boomtowns outside Austin
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04/26/2026

Austin ranks as the #1 best-performing Top 50 U.S. metro for job growth in 2025
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No. 1 Best Performing Top 50 US job market for job growth in 2025, creating 27,200 jobs (2.0%).

04/18/2026

xAI — the parent company of Musk’s social media company, X — is subleasing all of roughly 112,000-SF space at the Seaholm building, according to newly released reports. further citing the joint venture formed between xAI, SpaceX, Tesla and Intel as the subtenant.
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Elon Musk's companies are tied to the historic site by multiple Austin office market reports recently released by commercial real estate firms.

04/05/2026

NAR mapped out the metro areas with the largest percentage change in household growth from 2014 to 2024. Austin ranked in the top 10 and had more than 1 million occupied units in 2024, up from just over 700,000 a decade earlier. Over that period, the city's household growth rate — nearly 51% — was more than triple the national rate of 13%.
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A snapshot of the last decade shows a number of cities in the South and Midwest have experienced substantial growth.