Editing Round Rock, Texas (section)

===Dell corporate headquarters===
Dell, a [[multinational corporation|multinational]] [[computer]] and [[information technology]] corporation based in Round Rock, develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. The company employs about 11,500 people in the Round Rock facilities,<ref name="bizjournals.com"/> and as of 2017, about 138,000 people worldwide.<ref name="GreenHQ">"[https://www.statista.com/statistics/264917/number-of-employees-at-dell-since-1996/ Number of employees at Dell from 1996 to 2017.]" ''Statista: The Statistics Portal''. Retrieved on April 12, 2019.</ref> Dell was originally based in Austin after its formation in 1984 as ''PC's Limited'' by UT college student [[Michael Dell]]. With the need for significant space as it expanded, the City of Round Rock in 1996 offered Dell a "Chapter 380" agreement by offering to split sales tax revenue from in-state sales 50/50 between Dell and the city. (A "Chapter 380" agreement is named for the chapter in [[Law of Texas#Legislation Vernon's Statutes|Vernon's Statues]] that permits sales tax revenue sharing for [[economic development]] purposes.) It was the first time such an agreement had been used in [[Central Texas]] and among the first in the state.<ref name="nl.newsbank.com">Jacobs, Janet. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0E9C23E34AFB39E9&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Cash flow from Dell lets Round Rock boost budget]." ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]''. September 9, 1999. A1. Retrieved on May 4, 2010. "Almost half the city's general fund comes from sales tax at Dell's headquarters."</ref> As of 1999, approximately half of the general fund of the City of Round Rock originates from sales taxes generated from the Dell headquarters.<ref name="nl.newsbank.com"/> Today, the company is one of the largest technology companies in the world, listed as number 38 on the ''[[Fortune 500]]'' (2010). ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' also lists Dell as the #5 most admired company in its industry.
As part of its clean energy program in 2008, Dell switched the power sources of the Round Rock headquarters to more environmentally friendly ones, with 60% of the power coming from [[TXU Energy]] [[wind farm]]s and 40% coming from the Austin Community Landfill [[Landfill gas|gas-to-energy]] plant operated by [[Waste Management, Inc]].