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Google purchased 375 acres in the Railport Business Park in May 2017 and in July 2018 received Ellis County approval on a 10 year tax abatement agreement between the county and Google. The land was acquired under the entity Sharka LLC.

The building was a former Toys R Us warehouse distribution facility, but the toy company closed its doors in April 2018 after the company went bankrupt.

Tax Abatements for Google

The Dallas News reportsThe Midlothian city council approved a 100 percent personal property tax abatement and 85 percent improvement tax abatement over a 10-year period for the development of a data center. According to Ellis County documents, the abatement is for 10 years and begins Jan.1 of the year following the City of Midlothian issuing a certificate of occupancy. The abatement agreement also notes Google must invest a minimum of $500 million in its facilities and have a minimum of 40 full-time employees by the end of the fifth year of occupancy.

According to council documents, the data center could bring a $500 million capital investment and up to 40 jobs by the fifth year of the abatement period.

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Midlothian Texas is 25 miles southwest of Dallas. Midlothian is known as the cement capital of Texas.

The area has 3 of the 10 largest cement plants in the United States (Ash Grove, Holcim, and Texas Industries.) Midlothian became a prime area for cement quarrying due to the Austin Chalk Escarpment, a unique geological formation that runs north-south through the city.

RailPort Business Park is a 1,700-acre rail-served business park development just south of Dallas/Fort Worth in Midlothian, TX. It is centrally located to the Metroplex and the booming Southern Sector industrial market, being 25 miles south of Dallas and 27 miles southeast of Fort Worth.

Google Stands Alone

Interesting enough, there are no other data centers within 15 miles of Midlothian. Most of the data center development in the metro is either in Dallas or to the North (Plano, Carrolton, Richardson, and North Fort Worth.) Google is a data center pioneer in the South.

From the perspective of electrical supply, it might prove to be a smart decision. As the high growth data center industry clusters to the North, Google has chosen to colocate its data center next to a slow growth, but high electric consumption industry.

Data Center Launched in June 2019

The Dallas Morning News posted a video of the June 14 2019 launch event on YouTube

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0.81 miles Google: Midlothian, TX (Sharka Data Center - Building 4)
Google has filed to construct a new data center building at its campus at the RailPort Business Park in Midlothian outside Dallas, Texas. The $100 million project is due to see a 170,600 sq ft single-story data center.
15.58 miles Compass Red Oak Campus
Located in south of the Metro, Compass’ second metro campus can expand to more than 155 acres and 262 MW of power.
15.75 miles Google Red Oak TX
15.91 miles Compass Red Oak DFW III-II
16.64 miles Mapletree: 5000 South Bowen
18.82 miles Skybox: PowerCampus Dallas
The campus is developed with Bandera Ventures, in partnership with Principal Asset Management

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Proposed Property for Google's Midlothian Texas Data Center
Source: Midlothian City Council Documents
Google held a launch  event in June 2019.
One of the last beams for the new Google data center

Google held a launch event in June 2019.


Google sign in front of just completed data center in June 2019

Midlothian mayor Richard Reno and U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson sign a steel bar during an announcement of Google's new data center in Midlothian on June 14, 2019

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Photo taken in June 2019
Google Midlothian

Photo taken in June 2019

Source: Quincy Preston

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In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.

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