Every Data Center in Texas: Operating, Under Construction, and Proposed

This page counts every data center campus Texas has, is building, has been offered, or has turned away, as of September 22, 2026. The tally: nineteen operating hyperscale and wholesale campuses, twenty-two under construction, thirty-five live proposals, thirteen withdrawn, rejected, or stalled, and forty colocation and enterprise operators by metro from the Infomart in Dallas to the border carrier hotels in McAllen and Laredo. The Texas Tribune’s own database identifies 596 operating and planned data centers statewide, and ERCOT, the grid operator for most of the state, has received interconnection requests for roughly 474 gigawatts of large load, about 90 percent of it data centers and more than five times the record demand the grid has ever served. Only 9,042 MW of that has been approved to energize.

The wind farm above stands in Carson County, northeast of Amarillo, where Fermi America is grading 6,000 acres for a campus it says will reach 11 gigawatts and where the first three gas turbines arrived by truck on September 18. Whether Fermi and the dozens of gigawatt-scale campuses behind it get grid connections is now up to the state: on August 3 Governor Abbott ordered ERCOT to audit every large project in its queue before approving another, and on September 21 he told the environmental agency to stop issuing data center permits until the audits are done. The new Texas template of a single tenant, a private gas plant, and a West Texas ranch is examined in our reporting on the summer of the gigawatt campus and on behind-the-meter power; this page is the ledger, and every row traces to a source listed at the end.

At a glance

Status	Projects	Disclosed capacity
Operating hyperscale and wholesale	19	About 4.7 GW, mixing live and build-out figures
Under construction	22	About 25 GW, including generation and master-plan figures
Proposed or pending	35	About 50 GW where disclosed
Withdrawn, rejected, or stalled	13	About 4 GW
Colocation and enterprise	40 operators by metro	About 600 MW operating; 800 MW planned

Capacity is the sum of megawatts a developer, utility, county, or regulator has put on the record for that bucket; Texas developers quote generation capacity and master-plan totals more often than IT load, and the rows say which. For scale, ERCOT has observed a simultaneous peak of about 3.9 GW from the large loads it has approved, CBRE puts Dallas-Fort Worth’s colocation inventory at 1,432.8 MW with more than 765 MW under construction and 95 percent of it preleased, and JLL counted 6.5 GW under construction statewide at the end of 2025, more than any other market in the world.

Operating hyperscale campuses

Project	Operator	Location	Size	Status	Latest
Stargate Abilene (phase one)	Crusoe for Oracle and OpenAI	Abilene, Taylor Co.	1,200 MW planned; about 300 MW live; 4 of 8 buildings	Operating, expanding	Apr 2026, completion due late 2026
Temple Data Center	Meta	Temple, Bell Co.	760,000 sq ft; $1.2B	Operating	Jul 2026, went live
Fort Worth Data Center	Meta	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	170 acres; 2.5M sq ft	Operating since 2017	Jul 2026, city inventory
Midlothian campus	Google	Midlothian, Ellis Co.	4 buildings; fifth filed at $880M	Operating, expanding	Sep 2026, part of $40B Texas plan
Red Oak campus	Google	Red Oak, Ellis Co.	First building live late 2025	Operating	Sep 2026, expansion under $40B plan
Westover Hills campuses	Microsoft	San Antonio, Bexar Co.	Multiple buildings; 245,000 sq ft addition	Partly operating, expanding	2026, tracker status
FTW1	QTS	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	52 acres; 70 MW+; 200 MW potential	Operating; phase two finishing	Jul 2026
DFW2	QTS	Irving, Dallas Co.	56 acres; 165 MW	Operating; third building opened 2025	2026
Red Oak campus	Compass Datacenters	Red Oak, Ellis Co.	155 acres; 9 buildings; 262 MW	Operating	Jun 2026, $12.6M training facility gift
Red Oak campus (DFW9 to DFW12)	DataBank	Red Oak, Ellis Co.	292 acres; 240 MW phase one	Operating, phased	2026, phase two to 480 MW
PowerCampus Austin	Skybox Datacenters	Hutto, Williamson Co.	1.28M sq ft; 600 MW at build-out	2 buildings live; 2 planned	2026
The Rock	Switch	Round Rock, Williamson Co.	185 MW	Partly operating	2026, tracker status
SDC Austin	Sabey Data Centers	Round Rock, Williamson Co.	84 MW; Building B adds 54 MW	Operating, expanding	2026, hosts UT Horizon supercomputer
San Antonio III to VII	Stream Data Centers	San Antonio, Bexar Co.	1.5M sq ft; 200 MW	Partly operating	2026, tracker status
Austin campus	CyrusOne	Austin, Travis Co.	100 MW	Partly operating	2026, tracker status
Denton campus	CoreWeave (former Core Scientific)	Denton, Denton Co.	262 MW IT; 282 MW by 2027	Operating; 7 buildings live	Jul 2026, eighth building fit-out
Helios	Galaxy Digital (tenant CoreWeave)	Afton, Dickens Co.	2,200 acres; 133 MW live; 1.63 GW approved	Phase one operating	Jul 2026, phase two due 2027
Rockdale campus	Riot Platforms	Rockdale, Milam Co.	700 MW; 191 MW AI lease worth $9.1B	Operating; converting to AI	Aug 2026, 20-year lease signed
Corsicana campus	Riot Platforms	Corsicana, Navarro Co.	858 acres; 400 MW built; 1 GW site	Operating; AI lease talks	Q1 2026

Two kinds of campus share this table. The Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin rows are conventional wholesale campuses leased to hyperscalers, clustered in Ellis County south of Dallas and along Interstate 35 in Williamson County. The rest are the new Texas model: Stargate Abilene, the first OpenAI site, has four of eight buildings running on Crusoe’s behind-the-meter gas turbines; Galaxy’s Helios in Dickens County and Riot’s Rockdale and Corsicana sites are bitcoin mines being rewired for AI tenants, and Riot’s 191-megawatt lease with an unnamed frontier lab is worth $9.1 billion over twenty years.

Under construction

Project	Operator	Location	Size	Status	Latest
Stargate Milam	SB Energy for OpenAI	Burlington, Milam Co.	1,200 MW	Under construction	Apr 2026, first building due Oct 2026
Frontier	Vantage Data Centers for Oracle and OpenAI	Shackelford Co., near Abilene	1,200 acres; 3.7M sq ft; 1.4 GW; $25B	Under construction	2026, first building late 2026
Abilene phase two	Crusoe	Abilene, Taylor Co.	900 MW on Lancium land	Under construction; tenant unresolved	Jul 2026
El Paso campus	Meta and BlackRock	El Paso, El Paso Co.	1 GW; $10B+ Meta share	Under construction; 2,300 workers on site	Jul 2026, BlackRock takes 80%; online 2028
GW Ranch	Amazon (from Pacifico Energy)	Pecos Co., 17 miles north of Fort Stockton	8,400 acres; 7.65 GW gas; about $12B	Under construction; 3 buildings permitted	Aug 2026, first power due Dec 2026
Sweetwater 1 and 2	IREN	Sweetwater, Nolan Co.	2,200 acres; 2,000 MW	Under construction; substation energized	May 2026, 1.4 GW substation live
Barber Lake	Cipher Mining (tenants Fluidstack, AWS)	Colorado City, Mitchell Co.	300 MW; AWS lease $5.5B over 15 years	Under construction; delivery 2026	2026, fully leased
Goodnight campus	Crusoe	Claude, Armstrong Co.	7 buildings; 1 GW+; $29B+	Under construction, phased to Feb 2027	Jul 2026, buildings 3 and 4 filed
Meitner Energy Center	Google and Intersect	Gray and Roberts Cos., near Pampa	1 GW+ with co-located wind, solar, storage, gas	Under construction	Jun 2026, construction launched
Wilbarger County campus	Google	Vernon area, Wilbarger Co.	Part of $40B Texas plan	Under construction	Feb 2026, Google confirms build
Project Caprock (LBB-01)	Aligned Data Centers	Abernathy, Hale Co.	313 acres; 1.65M sq ft; 540 MW	Under construction	Apr 2026 groundbreaking; first delivery 2027
SAT82	Microsoft	Castroville, Medina Co.	195,000 to 245,000 sq ft; up to $483M	Construction from Aug 2026	Sep 2026, registered; done 2028
Bosque County campus	CyrusOne	Near Lake Whitney, Bosque Co.	400 MW; $1.2B	Under construction	2026
CloudBurst campus	CloudBurst	San Marcos area, Hays Co.	1,200 MW in three 400 MW phases	Under construction, first phase	2026
Edged Energy Campus	Edged	Martindale, Caldwell Co.	462 MW	Under construction	2026
Austin campus	Prime Data Centers	Maxwell, Caldwell Co.	384 MW	Under construction	2026
Old Settlers campus	Skybox Datacenters	Round Rock, Williamson Co.	About 30 acres; 75 MW; no incentives	Rezoned; under construction	Feb 2026, council approved unanimously
TX12	Vantage Data Centers	San Antonio, Bexar Co.	96 MW	Under construction	2026
Georgetown campus	Blueprint Data Centers	Georgetown, Williamson Co.	25 MW; $160M	Under construction	2026
Beacon Point	Hut 8	Corpus Christi, Nueces Co.	525 acres; 1 GW site; 352 MW leased	Phased construction; energization 2027	Jul 2026, phase two leased
Data Center Technology Park	Tract	Uhland, Caldwell Co.	2,973 acres; 4 GW plan; 360 MW phase one	Permitted; early works	Jan 2026, first 250 MW due 2028
TerraSite-TX1	EdgeCloudLink	Houston, Harris Co.	1,000 MW hydrogen-powered per tracker	Under construction per tracker	2026

The largest project on the list is not a data center but a power plant. GW Ranch, on 8,400 acres of Pecos County ranchland, is being built to generate 7.65 gigawatts of gas-fired power for Amazon, which disclosed its ownership in August and expects first power in December 2026. Meta’s El Paso campus, sold 80 percent to BlackRock in July, is the one gigawatt-class site under construction outside ERCOT, on El Paso Electric’s grid. In the Panhandle, Crusoe’s Goodnight campus at Claude and Google’s Meitner complex near Pampa are both being built with their own generation, and IREN’s Sweetwater substation, energized in May at 1.4 gigawatts, is the single largest grid connection any Texas data center has completed.

Proposed and pending

The high desert between Fort Stockton and Alpine, grassland running to the Glass Mountains and the Davis Mountains, is where the next round of gigawatt proposals is landing. Microsoft announced a two-gigawatt behind-the-meter campus at Pecos in June, and Pacifico Energy, the developer that sold GW Ranch to Amazon, approached Brewster County commissioners on September 18 about 8,400 more acres northwest of Alpine, drawing a warning from the county judge that “we’re not taking this like a lay down.”

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Project	Operator	Location	Size	Status	Latest
Pecos AI campus	Microsoft	Pecos, Reeves Co.	2 GW; behind-the-meter gas	Announced; 5 to 7 year build	Jun 2026
Project Matador	Fermi America	Carson Co., northeast of Amarillo	About 6,000 acres; 11 GW planned; 222 MW lease worth $6.5B	Site work; first turbines delivered	Sep 2026, TensorWave lease delivery 2027
Data City, Texas	Energy Abundance Development	Laredo area, Webb Co.	50,000 acres; 5 GW; 300 MW first phase	Proposed; islanded from ERCOT	Feb 2026
Comanche Circle	Sailfish Investors	Tolar, Hood Co.	2,600 acres; up to 5 GW; 9 campuses	Concept plan approved 3 to 1; hearing Oct 13	Jun 2026
Project Patriot	Bilateral Energy per tracker	Granbury, Hood Co.	1,200 MW	Tax waiver approved 3 to 1; annexed	Jun 2026
Caldwell campus	PowerHouse Data Centers	Uhland, Caldwell Co.	700 MW per tracker	Application filed	2026
San Marcos campus	Sabey Data Centers	San Marcos, Hays Co.	Not disclosed	Application filed	2026
COPT Potranco	Amazon Web Services	San Antonio, Bexar Co.	600 MW	Application filed	2026
SAT campus	CloudHQ	San Antonio, Bexar Co.	600 MW	Government review	2026
Bitter Blue (Building B)	Amazon Web Services	Elmendorf, Bexar Co.	Not disclosed	Government review	2026
Palomino Alpha	Palomino	Zorn, Guadalupe Co.	360 MW	Application filed	2026
Williamson County hyperscale campus	Iron Mountain	Hutto or Taylor, Williamson Co.	About 500 acres; 7 buildings	Application filed	2026
Project Comal	KDC Real Estate	Taylor, Williamson Co.	6 data centers beside Samsung	Permitted	2026
Taylor campus	Blueprint Data Centers	Taylor, Williamson Co.	53 acres; 60 MW; $1B	Approved Jul 2025; not started	2026
Jarrell campus	Mesones	Jarrell, Williamson Co.	Not disclosed; on-site gas	Incentive talks	2026
Somervell County campus	Amazon	Glen Rose, Somervell Co.	600 MW	Tax abatement in place	May 2026
C1 Jack I	CyrusOne	Jack Co., at the Wise Co. line	300 acres; 144 MW+; up to $2B	Abatement pending	Feb 2026
Waco Data Center Park	InfraKey DC Parks	Lacy Lakeview, McLennan Co.	520 acres; 925 MW; 1.2 GW gas plant; $10B	Proposed; organized opposition	2026
RCM Hill	RCM Hill LLC	Hillsboro area, Hill Co.	800+ acres; 1,235 MW	Proposed; sued county for $100M	Jun 2026, moratorium rescinded
Hubbard campus	Nexus Data Centers	Hubbard, Hill Co.	5,630 MW per tracker	Planned	2026
Project Merlin	Galaxy Digital	McGregor, McLennan Co.	3,500 MW per tracker	Planned	2026
East Texas campus	Amp Z	Lufkin, Angelina Co.	2.1 GW; 175 MW grid in 2026	Land deal; planned	2026
RGV Data Center Project	Eneus Energy	Harlingen, Cameron Co.	2,000 MW; 4.6M gallons a day reclaimed water	Proposed	2026
Childress campus	Crusoe and Lancium	Childress, Childress Co.	270 acres; 1 GW	Announced; construction start targeted late 2026	Jul 2026
Port of Victoria campus	Crusoe (power from Blue Energy)	Victoria, Victoria Co.	1,600 acres; 1.5 GW; gas 2028, nuclear 2031	Planned	2026
Armstrong County campus	Google	Armstrong Co.	Part of $40B Texas plan	Announced	Nov 2025
Haskell County campuses	Google and Intersect	Haskell Co.	640 MW solar plus 1.3 GWh storage paired	Announced	Jun 2026
Fort Worth campus	CyrusOne and Eolian	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	200 MW	Announced	Jul 2026
ACS campus	ACS	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	107 acres; 5 buildings; private substation	Proposed	Jul 2026
Medina County campus (SAT14A)	CyrusOne	West of Castroville, Medina Co.	244 acres; 500,000 sq ft first building; $4B to $6B	80% abatement; construction Dec 2026	2026
SAT93	Microsoft	Medina Co.	About 245,000 sq ft	Registered for future construction	Sep 2026
Glass Mountains site	Pacifico Energy	Northwest of Alpine, Brewster Co.	8,400 acres; $5B to $60B	Feasibility surveys	Sep 2026, pitched to county
Bastrop County land	Amazon	Near Cedar Creek, Bastrop Co.	1,300 acres	Land acquired	May 2026
Project Eagle	Amazon Data Services	Boling, Wharton Co.	10+ buildings of 189,060 sq ft; about $3B	Registered with state	Sep 2026
Floyd County data center	Amazon Data Services	Floydada, Floyd Co.	189,060 sq ft; $300M	Registered with state	Sep 2026

Three patterns. The Panhandle and West Texas rows quote generation, not IT load: Fermi’s 11 gigawatts is a gas and nuclear plant with data halls attached, and Energy Abundance’s five-gigawatt Data City near Laredo would not connect to ERCOT at all. Hood County, southwest of Fort Worth, has eight proposals on 2,600 acres and a commissioners court that approved Sailfish’s Comanche Circle without conditions in June after rejecting a moratorium in February. And Amazon has registered three new Texas projects with the state licensing agency since May without announcing any of them.

Withdrawn, rejected, or paused

Project	Operator	Location	Size	Outcome	When
Stargate Abilene expansion to 2 GW	Oracle and OpenAI	Abilene, Taylor Co.	800 MW addition	Abandoned over financing and demand	Mar 2026
Project Horizon	Poolside (anchor CoreWeave)	Fort Stockton, Pecos Co.	568 acres; 2 GW; 250 MW first phase	Anchor lease collapsed; no tenant	Apr 2026
Project Matador anchor tenant	Fermi America	Carson Co.	$150M construction funding deal	Tenant withdrew; shares fell 34%; class action filed	Dec 2025
Cedar Creek Reservoir campus	Diode Ventures	Henderson Co.	12-year build; 5M gallons a day by year five	Withdrawn, citing state standards and opposition	Jul 2026
Highlander SM One	Highlander SM One LLC	San Marcos, Hays Co.	200 acres; 380 MW; $1.5B	Rezoning denied 5 to 2	Feb 2026
All data centers, city of San Marcos	City of San Marcos	San Marcos, Hays Co.	Citywide	First Texas city to ban data centers, 4 to 3	Jun 2026
Fort Spunky	Pacifico Energy	Hood Co., across the Brazos from Pecan Plantation	862 acres; 100 MW	Concept plan revoked after water denial	2026
Project Red and Project Yellow	Not disclosed	Hood Co., near power plants	677 acres combined	Votes delayed; under lawsuit	Jun 2026
Brazoria County data center and gas plant	Not disclosed	Brazoria Co.	620 MW	County denied tax abatement	Mar 2026
College Station land sale	Not disclosed	College Station, Brazos Co.	Not disclosed	City rejected property sale after resident pressure	2026
Fort Worth campus	Edged	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	Not disclosed	Withdrawn; tax agreement rescinded	Mar 2026
Fort Worth campus	Black Mountain	Fort Worth, Tarrant Co.	Not disclosed	Stalled after zoning approval	Apr 2026
Hutto campus	Zydeco	Hutto, Williamson Co.	70 MW	Withdrawn	2026

The Texas list of failures is mostly about tenants, not votes. OpenAI and Oracle dropped the second gigawatt at Abilene in March; Poolside’s two-gigawatt Project Horizon in Fort Stockton lost CoreWeave as its anchor in April and has not found a replacement; Fermi’s first tenant walked away in December and the company’s shares fell by a third before it signed TensorWave in August. The exceptions are San Marcos, which in June became the first Texas city to remove data centers from every zoning district, and Hill County, whose one-year moratorium lasted twenty-four days before a developer’s $100 million lawsuit forced its repeal.

Colocation and enterprise facilities

Downtown Dallas holds the two buildings that made the region a market: the Infomart on Stemmons Freeway, the 1.58-million-square-foot former computer mart that Equinix bought for $800 million in 2018 and that now houses four of its nine Dallas sites plus Cologix and DataBank suites, and Digital Realty’s carrier hotel at 2323 Bryan Street, landlord to Equinix, Rackspace, and LOGIX. Equinix’s next campus, the $836 million DA12 in West Dallas, began construction in February 2026.

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Because Texas has hundreds of colocation buildings, this table lists one row per operator per metro rather than one per building. Every row was checked against the operator’s own site, an operator-maintained PeeringDB record, or a news report, not a directory listing alone; directory entries for Flexential’s downtown Austin site, Cogent, Lumen’s former Level 3 rooms, Consolidated Communications, Aptum in San Antonio, 11:11 Systems, and the state’s two Texas Private Cloud data centers were left out until an address can be confirmed. Familiar names have changed: Cyxtera and Evoque are now Csquare (formerly Centersquare, headquartered in Coppell and public since July 2026), INAP’s Plano business is HorizonIQ, ViaWest and Peak 10 are Flexential, Data Foundry is Switch, Sungard AS is 365 Data Centers in Richardson, OnRamp is Lightedge, and Alpheus is LOGIX.

Operator	Metro	Flagship address	Sites	Size	Notes
Equinix	Dallas-Fort Worth	1950 N. Stemmons Fwy., Dallas (Infomart)	9 operating; DA12 under construction	Infomart 1.58M sq ft; DA12 372,000+ sq ft, $836M	DA4 at 2323 Bryan; DA7 Plano; DA9 Irving; DA10 Richardson
Digital Realty	Dallas-Fort Worth	2323 Bryan St., Dallas	12 buildings	About 2.68M sq ft	Carrier hotel 387,500 sq ft; 7 Richardson buildings; Lewisville 831,500 sq ft
DataBank	Dallas-Fort Worth	400 S. Akard St., Dallas	8 operating; 4 Red Oak building	1.27M sq ft; about 70 MW operating; 310 MW with Red Oak	DFW5 in Infomart; DFW8 Plano 40 MW
Flexential	Dallas-Fort Worth	3500 E. Plano Pkwy., Plano	3	Plano about 156,000 sq ft	Opened 2016 as ViaWest; Richardson and Infomart suites
Csquare	Dallas-Fort Worth	14901 FAA Blvd., Fort Worth	3	238,000 sq ft; 78.8 MW utility	Former Savvis, Cyxtera, AT&T, Evoque; Allen and Dallas sites
Cologix	Dallas-Fort Worth	1950 N. Stemmons Fwy., Dallas	3, all in Infomart	53,000+ sq ft	DAL1 is the Infomart meet-me room; 30+ cloud on-ramps
Evocative	Dallas-Fort Worth	1221 Coit Rd., Plano	2 plus a point of presence	DAL6 111,000 sq ft, 12 MW; DAL1 300,000 sq ft, 30 MW	DAL6 former INAP; DAL1 is space inside Aligned DFW-01
TierPoint	Dallas-Fort Worth	3004 Irving Blvd., Dallas	3	305,000+ sq ft; Fort Worth 5 to 18 MW	Dallas former Colo4; Fort Worth bought Jan 2024
365 Data Centers	Dallas-Fort Worth	1001 E. Campbell Rd., Richardson	1	75,100 sq ft; 6.2 MW	Former Sungard AS; 13 carriers
Rackspace	Dallas-Fort Worth	801 Industrial Blvd., Grapevine	2	DFW3 58,000 sq ft raised; 28 MW utility	DFW3 inside Digital Realty Richardson; no San Antonio data center listed
CoreSpace	Dallas-Fort Worth	7505 John W. Carpenter Fwy., Dallas	1	30,000 sq ft	Retail colocation and hosting
TRG Datacenters	Dallas-Fort Worth	4404 S. Beltwood Pkwy., Farmers Branch	1 under construction	160,000 sq ft; 25 MW	First hall 2027
LOGIX Fiber Networks	Dallas-Fort Worth	2323 Bryan St., Dallas	1 suite	Not disclosed	Carrier-run colocation inside Digital Realty
Lightedge	Dallas-Fort Worth	2501 S. SH 121 Business, Lewisville	1 suite	Not disclosed	On the CyrusOne Lewisville campus; former Connectria
Switch (Data Foundry)	Austin	4100 Smith School Rd.	2 on 40-acre campus plus legacy site	DF01 130,000 sq ft, 24 MW; DF02 325,000 sq ft, 36 MW plan	Texas 1 opened 2011; Switch bought Data Foundry 2021
Digital Realty	Austin	7500 Metro Center Dr.	1 (AUS1)	85,500 sq ft	Cloud on-ramps
Element Critical	Austin	8025 N. IH-35	1	62,300 sq ft; 9.5 MW	Former vXchnge
DataBank	Austin	7218 McNeil Dr.	1 (AUS1)	7,870 sq ft; 0.4 MW	Former Core NAP and zColo
Lightedge	Austin	2916 Montopolis Dr.	2	Not disclosed	Former OnRamp Access
LOGIX Fiber Networks	Austin	1905 E. 6th St.	1	Not disclosed	Former Alpheus
H5 Data Centers	San Antonio	100 Taylor St.	2 buildings	85,000 sq ft	Downtown carrier hotel; 35 carriers; SAT-IX
DataBank	Houston	5150 Westway Park Blvd.	4	296,000 sq ft; 36.4 MW	HOU1 15.6 MW; HOU5 in the Galleria
Netrality	Houston	1301 Fannin St.	1	1.2M sq ft building; 26 MW	Houston’s primary carrier hotel; 40+ carriers
Switch (Data Foundry)	Houston	660 Greens Pkwy.	1 plus legacy point of presence	350,000 sq ft; 60 MW	Greenspoint; 175,000 sq ft raised floor
Element Critical	Houston (Katy)	22000 Franz Rd., Katy	HOU1 operating; HOU2 under construction	HOU1 118,000 sq ft, 40 MW; HOU2 150,000 sq ft, 60 MW	30-acre campus; 300 MVA substation
Digital Realty	Houston	12001 North Fwy.	1 (IAH10)	205,500 sq ft	Directories still list Level 3 here
Equinix	Houston	1515 Aldine Meadows Rd.	1 (HO1)	Not disclosed	Former Verizon; built 1999, acquired 2017
TRG Datacenters	Houston (Spring)	2626 Spring Cypress Rd., Spring	HOU1 operating; HOU2 and HOU3 building	155,000 sq ft; 30 MW campus	Expansion phase one late 2026
Fibertown	Houston	12031 North Fwy.	1	Not disclosed	Sister site in Bryan
LOGIX Fiber Networks	Houston	811 Louisiana St.	2	Not disclosed	Katy suite inside EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX	Houston (Katy)	1510 Primewest Pkwy., Katy	1	91,400 sq ft; 17,700 sq ft raised floor	Edge data center; LOGIX is a tenant
Data Journey (former Westland Bunker)	Houston (Montgomery)	552 Club Dr., Montgomery	1 campus	400 MW+ planned	Former Houston Bunker; 1.1 GW Sealy site proposed
DataBank	Waco	700 Austin Ave.	1 (ACT1)	14,210 sq ft; 0.8 MW	12 carriers
Fibertown	Bryan	110 N. Main St., Bryan	1	Not disclosed	Locally owned
Crosspoint Data	College Station	3001 Earl Rudder Fwy. S.	1	Not disclosed	Colocation and recovery office space
MDC Data Centers	El Paso	11455 Cedar Oak Dr.	1	Not disclosed	First carrier-neutral site in El Paso; Mexican carrier hub
MDC Data Centers	Laredo	13619 Cabezut Dr.	1	Not disclosed	Two fiber crossings to Nuevo Laredo
MDC Data Centers	McAllen	422 S. 11th St.	2 (MCA1, MCA2)	Not disclosed	Company headquarters; 62 networks across 9 border markets
1547 Critical Systems Realty	McAllen	200 S. 10th St.	1 (MCTX1)	Not disclosed	Former CarrierCOM
UT Austin TACC	Round Rock	Inside Sabey SDC Austin	1 colocated system	Not disclosed	Horizon, the largest NSF academic supercomputer

Power, policy, and moratoriums

“Simply put, Texans must come first. Data centers must pay their own way, protect our grid and water, and complete the ERCOT and TWDB audits.”

Governor Abbott said that on September 21, 2026, as he ordered the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue no permits to data center projects until two state audits are finished, with a compliance report due October 19. It was the third step in seven weeks. On August 3 he directed the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to verify every large-load project in the interconnection queue before approving another, and ERCOT the same day suspended approvals to energize any data center or crypto facility of 75 megawatts or more and paused its “Batch Zero” study of roughly 250 to 300 projects representing about 200 GW; ERCOT says it will file its verification report on December 10. On September 14 he told the Texas Water Development Board to prosecute data centers that ignore its water survey, after only 28 percent of them answered it. Behind the orders are the numbers: 474 GW of requests against a grid whose all-time peak, set on July 22, 2026, was 91,134 MW; a preliminary long-term forecast that shows demand quadrupling by 2032 and that ERCOT’s own chief executive called higher than he expects; and, on the other side of the ledger, only 9,042 MW of large load actually approved to connect.

The framework the governor is enforcing is Senate Bill 6, signed in June 2025: loads of 75 megawatts or more must pay a minimum $100,000 study fee, disclose duplicate requests elsewhere in Texas and any backup generation, install remote-disconnect equipment so ERCOT can shed them in an emergency, and share transmission costs. The commission’s implementing rule, still pending, would add $50,000 per megawatt of financial security. The utilities have taken the orders in stride because their queues are unmanageable anyway: Oncor reported 298 GW of large-load requests at midyear, CenterPoint says 12.2 GW of Houston load is firmly committed with 8 GW of it data centers to be energized by 2029, and CPS Energy in San Antonio counts 59 projects asking for about 26,000 MW against a system that peaks near 5,000. The $33 billion plan to build the state’s first 765-kilovolt transmission lines, justified largely by West Texas load, hit its own wall in August when the lieutenant governor asked the commission to deny every pending line certificate until the 2027 session; hearings run through October 2. Vistra, whose Comanche Peak nuclear plant will sell 1,200 MW to Amazon from 2027, told investors it would “like to see the queues culled.”

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Money and land are the other fronts. The data center sales tax exemption, which cost $14.6 million in its first biennium, is projected at $1.3 billion for fiscal 2026 and $3.3 billion for 2028 to 2029; the Comptroller has audited 20 of the 138 qualified projects and found 6 in breach, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on it July 27, and Abbott now says he will work to eliminate data center incentives entirely. Because Texas counties have no zoning power, the local response has run through cities and tax abatements: San Marcos banned data centers outright in June, Fort Worth voted unanimously in August for a moratorium that takes effect in February 2027 and created a data center commission, Denton is on track to adopt one in December, Forney, Lewisville, Mesquite, and El Paso wrote setback and permit ordinances, and Austin is drafting a “high-impact” land use class with a no-incentives policy. Guadalupe, Archer, and Brazoria counties each refused abatements in 2026, and Hood County’s rejection of a moratorium came after a state senator warned commissioners they had no power to impose one. Water use, per the Houston Advanced Research Center, was about 25 billion gallons in 2025 and could reach 161 billion a year by 2030; San Antonio’s Microsoft and Army Corps sites drew 463 million gallons through a Stage 3 drought, while Stargate Abilene, running dry cooling, drew 20 gallons a minute against a 500-gallon allocation.

How this list is maintained

A row appears here when a named operator, a county record, a state registration, or an industry tracker lists a campus in Texas and its location or operator can be confirmed on the operator’s own site, in a government filing, or in a news report, or when a proposal has a named locality and a published source; rows that rest on a tracker alone say so. Because Texas has hundreds of colocation buildings, that table lists one row per operator per metro; hyperscale rows are one per campus. Corrections and additions are welcome through the About page, and every refresh is marked with an updated date at the top of the page.