CARSON COUNTY, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) -- Carson County Commissioners approved an abatement agreement with Fermi Inc, during their commissioner's court meeting on Monday.

Carson County Judge Dan Looten shared the abatement agreement is two parts.

"There's a generation side of it, what they're going to generate in megawatts and then there's the usage side of it, which is for the 'hyperscalers,' for the data centers themselves," Looten said" So, we structured it per megawatt like we do a lot of our wind turbines, and our solar farms are all abatements are always done on the megawatts."

Looten shared they also have the square footage on the data centers themselves, where there are plans to build a one million square foot building.

"We've said what's going to be a minimum of, per phase, 500,000

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