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Data Centers in Texas: 2026 Map and Project Tracker
Every large data center project in Texas, 100 MW and up, from the Panhandle to the I-35 corridor. Each figure is checked against its source and the tracker is updated monthly.
Hiring for a data center project?Texas is the biggest data center state in the country right now. Our tracker counts 28 active data center projects of 100 MW or more in Texas, adding up to 27.5 GW of planned capacity, with 14.2 GW already under construction. That is more large projects than any other state on our US data center map.
Below you’ll find a map of every project, a table with the operator, location, capacity, status, investment and announced jobs for each one, and the developers and counties with the most capacity. Click any circle on the map for project details.
Data center projects in Texas
Every active campus of 100 MW or more in Texas on our tracker, largest first.
| Project | Operator | Location | MW | Status | Investment | Construction jobs | Permanent jobs | Expected | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldwell Valley Technology Park | Tract | Lockhart (Caldwell County) | 4,000 | Announced | – | – | – | 2028 | Source (2026-01-13) |
| Champion campus (former Southland Paper Mill) | Amp Z | Lufkin (Angelina County) | 2,100 | Announced | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-02-05) |
| Pecos datacenter campus | Microsoft | Pecos (Reeves County) | 2,000 | Announced | – | 6,000 | – | – | Source (2026-06-22) |
| Helios campus (Dickens County) | Galaxy | Dickens (Dickens County) | 1,630 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-07-06) |
| Frontier (Shackelford County, 10 data centers) | Vantage Data Centers | Albany (Shackelford County) | 1,400 | Under construction | $25B | – | – | 2026 | Source (2025-08-19) |
| Sweetwater 1 | IREN | Sweetwater (Nolan County) | 1,400 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-09-08) |
| Stargate I / Lancium Clean Campus (Phases 1-2, 8 buildings) | Crusoe | Abilene (Taylor County) | 1,200 | Under construction | – | 5,000 | – | 2026 | Source (2025-03-18) |
| Milam County Stargate | SB Energy | Cameron (Milam County) | 1,200 | Under construction | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-01-09) |
| Central Texas campus (three 400 MW phases) | CloudBurst Data Centers | San Marcos (Hays County) | 1,200 | Under construction | $14.5B | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-05-07) |
| El Paso Data Center | Meta | El Paso (El Paso County) | 1,000 | Under construction | $14B | 4,000 | 300 | 2028 | Source (2026-07-28) |
| Beacon Point (Phases 1-2, Nueces County) | Hut 8 | Corpus Christi (Nueces County) | 1,000 | Under construction | $17B | 1,900 | 230 | – | Source (2026-07-20) |
| Childress AI data center campus | Crusoe | Childress (Childress County) | 1,000 | Announced | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-07-15) |
| Colchis | Cipher Digital | San Angelo (Tom Green County) | 1,000 | Announced | – | – | – | 2028 | Source (2025-11-03) |
| Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) | New Era Energy & Digital | Odessa (Ector County) | 1,000 | Announced | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-04-01) |
| Abilene AI factory for Microsoft (adjacent campus, two buildings) | Crusoe | Abilene (Taylor County) | 900 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-03-27) |
| Claude campus (Armstrong County, for Google) | Crusoe | Claude (Armstrong County) | 900 | Under construction | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-09-15) |
| Apollo (site option, near San Antonio) | Cipher Digital | San Antonio | 900 | Announced | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-08-04) |
| Sweetwater 2 | IREN | Roby (Fisher County) | 600 | Announced | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-09-08) |
| Project Caprock (six facilities) | Aligned Data Centers | Abernathy (Hale County) | 540 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-04-09) |
| Thad Hill data center (Bosque County, Phase 1-2 power) | CyrusOne | Meridian (Bosque County) | 400 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2026 | Source (2025-11-03) |
| Freestone Energy Center data center (Phase 1) | CyrusOne | Fairfield (Freestone County) | 380 | Under construction | – | – | – | – | Source (2026-06-08) |
| Barber Lake | Cipher Digital | Colorado City (Mitchell County) | 300 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2027-01 | Source (2025-11-20) |
| Temple campus | Rowan Digital Infrastructure | Temple (Bell County) | 300 | Under construction | $700M | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-01-06) |
| Project Cinco | Rowan Digital Infrastructure | Lytle (Medina County) | 300 | Under construction | $900M | – | – | 2027 | Source (2025-08-08) |
| Denton HPC campus (CoreWeave expansion) | Core Scientific | Denton (Denton County) | 260 | Operational | – | – | – | – | Source (2025-02-26) |
| Rockdale campus (AI and HPC conversion) | Riot Platforms | Rockdale (Milam County) | 241 | Operational | – | – | – | 2028-06 | Source (2026-08-10) |
| Project Matador TensorWave facility (Carson County) | Fermi America | Panhandle (Carson County) | 222 | Announced | – | – | – | 2027 | Source (2026-08-10) |
| Abernathy HPC campus (Fluidstack joint venture) | Fluidstack | Abernathy (Hale County) | 168 | Under construction | – | – | – | 2026 | Source (2025-10-28) |
– means the source does not state a figure; we do not estimate. Capacity is the figure the developer or operator announced. Expected dates are often the first building or phase. Last updated October 2026. See Texas on the full US map.
Paused or cancelled projects
| Project | Operator | Location | MW | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Horizon | Poolside | Fort Stockton (Pecos County) | 2,000 | Paused | Source (2026-04-02) |
Top data center developers in Texas
| Developer | Projects | Planned MW |
|---|---|---|
| Tract | 1 | 4,000 |
| Crusoe | 4 | 4,000 |
| Cipher Digital | 3 | 2,200 |
| Amp Z | 1 | 2,100 |
| Microsoft | 1 | 2,000 |
| IREN | 2 | 2,000 |
| Galaxy | 1 | 1,630 |
| Vantage Data Centers | 1 | 1,400 |
| SB Energy | 1 | 1,200 |
| CloudBurst Data Centers | 1 | 1,200 |
Data center capacity by county
| County | Towns | Planned MW |
|---|---|---|
| Caldwell | Lockhart | 4,000 |
| Angelina | Lufkin | 2,100 |
| Taylor | Abilene | 2,100 |
| Reeves | Pecos | 2,000 |
| Dickens | Dickens | 1,630 |
| Milam | Cameron, Rockdale | 1,441 |
| Shackelford | Albany | 1,400 |
| Nolan | Sweetwater | 1,400 |
| Hays | San Marcos | 1,200 |
| El Paso | El Paso | 1,000 |
| Nueces | Corpus Christi | 1,000 |
| Childress | Childress | 1,000 |
How many data centers are in Texas?
It depends on what you count. Texas has hundreds of data center buildings, from small enterprise server rooms to hyperscale campuses, and there is no official state register of them. What can be counted is the large new campuses: our tracker lists 28 active Texas projects of 100 MW or more, 14 of them planned at 1 GW or more.
The market research firms measure it a different way. In its mid-2026 report, JLL put Texas at 26 GW of existing and under-construction data center capacity, the most of any state. JLL’s year-end 2025 outlook said Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world’s largest data center market by 2030.
Where data centers are being built in Texas
Texas data center construction is happening in five broad areas. The older metro markets are still growing, but most of the gigawatt campuses are going up in rural West Texas and the Panhandle, where land is cheap and wind, solar and gas generation are close by.
- Dallas-Fort Worth. The state’s largest established market. JLL says DFW delivered more than 2 GW in the first half of 2026 and absorbed even more. CBRE counted 765 MW under construction in DFW in mid-2026, about 95% of it preleased, with another 3.7 GW planned. Google’s Midlothian and Red Oak data centers are in Ellis County, south of Dallas.
- Austin, San Antonio and the I-35 corridor. JLL says Austin and San Antonio completed 1.7 GW in the first half of 2026 as building spread along I-35. Campuses here include Tract’s Caldwell Valley Technology Park near Lockhart, the CloudBurst campus near San Marcos, Rowan’s Temple and Lytle sites, and the Stargate site in Milam County.
- West Texas and the Big Country. Abilene is home to the first Stargate campus, built by Crusoe. Nearby, Vantage’s Frontier campus in Shackelford County and IREN’s Sweetwater hub are among the largest in the state, with Microsoft planning a campus in Pecos and Cipher Digital building around Colorado City and San Angelo.
- The Panhandle and South Plains. Projects include Crusoe’s campus in Claude for Google, Crusoe’s Childress campus, Galaxy’s Helios campus in Dickens County and Aligned’s Project Caprock in Abernathy. CBRE expects West Texas to become one of the top five colocation markets in North America by 2028.
- El Paso, the Gulf Coast and East Texas. Meta is building a 1 GW data center in El Paso, Hut 8’s Beacon Point campus is near Corpus Christi, and Amp Z plans a multi-gigawatt campus on a former paper mill site in Lufkin.
Meta, Google, Microsoft and Amazon data centers in Texas
The biggest tech companies lease many of the Texas campuses on this page, and several are also building on their own land. Here is where each one stands.
Meta data centers in Texas
- Fort Worth. Meta’s first Texas data center broke ground in 2015 and has operated since 2017. Meta says it has invested more than $1.5 billion there and supports over 200 operational jobs (Meta).
- Temple. The $1.2 billion Bell County data center was paused in late 2022 so Meta could redesign it for AI, then went live in July 2026.
- El Paso. Announced in 2025, the campus has grown to 1 GW and more than $10 billion, with 300 permanent jobs and an expected 2028 opening. Funds managed by BlackRock own 80% of the development and Meta leases the whole campus (Meta, July 2026).
Google data centers in Texas
- Ellis County. Google’s Midlothian campus opened in 2019 and its Red Oak campus was announced in 2023, both south of Dallas (Google).
- $40 billion through 2027. In November 2025 Google announced its largest investment in any state, including new campuses in Armstrong County and Haskell County.
- Wilbarger and Gray/Roberts counties. Google is also building alongside new power plants: in Wilbarger County with AES, and near Pampa with Intersect, where construction is underway.
Microsoft data centers in Texas
- San Antonio. Microsoft has run Azure data centers in San Antonio since 2008 and is expanding west into Castroville and Medina.
- Pecos and Abilene. Microsoft announced its own campus in Pecos in 2026 and is the customer for Crusoe’s second AI campus in Abilene. Both are in the project table above.
Amazon (AWS) data centers in Texas
- New campuses. AWS has filed state construction plans for data center campuses in Boling, southwest of Houston, and in Pecos County and Floydada.
- GW Ranch. In August 2026 Amazon confirmed it owns the 8,000-acre GW Ranch site in Pecos County, a data center campus that will run on its own on-site gas power plant rather than the grid.
OpenAI and Oracle (Stargate)
The first Stargate campus, built by Crusoe in Abilene for Oracle and used by OpenAI, brought its first two buildings online in September 2025 and is planned at 1.2 GW across eight buildings. OpenAI has named two more Texas Stargate sites, in Shackelford County and Milam County.
QTS, CyrusOne and Digital Realty
The big colocation providers are expanding too. QTS runs campuses in Irving, Fort Worth and San Antonio and plans a $10 billion campus in Hall County. CyrusOne has 11 Texas data centers built or underway, including new campuses beside power plants in Freestone and Bosque counties. Digital Realty operates 12 data centers in the Dallas area.
Power, water and the 2026 permitting pause
Power is the limit on every Texas data center. Most of the state runs on the ERCOT grid, and data centers now dominate requests to connect to it. In August 2026, ERCOT was tracking more than 1,800 projects asking for over 474 GW, more than five times the grid’s record peak demand, and about 90% of the new requests were data centers.
Texas has tightened the rules in response:
- SB 6 (2025). The law sets new interconnection rules for large loads of 75 MW and up, and lets ERCOT remotely disconnect large data centers during grid emergencies.
- The August 2026 audit. Gov. Greg Abbott directed the PUC and ERCOT to audit data centers seeking a grid connection, including the tax breaks they will receive, their power and water use, and their ownership.
- The September 2026 permit hold. On September 21, Abbott told the TCEQ to halt all permits sought by data centers until the ERCOT and Texas Water Development Board audits are complete, and set an October 19 deadline for a compliance update.
Water and local control are the other pressure points. Texas counties have no zoning authority, so rural counties have few tools to slow projects. Hill County passed the state’s first county data center moratorium in May 2026, then rescinded it after a developer sued.
For anyone planning a project, this means timelines for new Texas campuses are less certain than they were a year ago. Projects already under construction are moving ahead, and the map above shows their status as of the last update.
Texas data center tax incentives
Since 2013, Texas has exempted qualifying data centers from the 6.25% state sales tax on servers, cooling, generators, software and electricity. To qualify, a data center must invest at least $200 million, occupy at least 100,000 square feet and create 20 permanent jobs. The cost of the exemption has grown from about $14.6 million in the 2014-15 budget to a projected $3.3 billion for 2028-29.
The exemption is still law, but it may not last. Abbott has said he will work with the Legislature in its next session to eliminate financial incentives for data centers.
Data center jobs in Texas
Each campus on this page needs two workforces. During construction, the demand is for electrical and mechanical engineers, project managers, commissioning agents, controls specialists and thousands of skilled trades. Electrical work alone is close to half of a data center construction budget, and Texas has about 71,000 electricians to share across every project in the state. Google is funding training for more than 1,700 electrical apprentices in Texas by 2030 to help close the gap.
Once a campus opens, the jobs shift to critical facilities engineers, data center technicians, network engineers and security staff. Many Texas sites are in towns of a few thousand people, so operators recruit from Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio and across the country. See the 12 most in-demand data center roles, the power and cooling skills AI data centers need and our data center workforce shortage statistics.
Staffing a Texas data center project? Apollo Technical recruits engineers and technical professionals for data center construction and operations, with recruiting in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Talk to our data center recruiting team, or read our guide on how to hire data center engineers.
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How we track Texas data centers
- What’s included: Texas data center campuses with a publicly announced capacity of 100 MW or more, from announcement through construction to opening. Smaller enterprise and colocation sites are not on the list.
- Where the figures come from: company press releases, SEC and utility filings, state and county economic development releases, and established news outlets. Every row links to its source and the date of that source. We do not use other trackers or maps as sources.
- No estimates: when a source does not state an investment or jobs figure, the cell shows a dash.
- Updates: the table, map and totals on this page come from the same data as our US data center map, which we re-check every month.
Spotted a Texas project we’re missing, or a figure that has changed? Let us know and we’ll check it for the next update.
Texas data centers FAQ
How many data centers are being built in Texas?
Our tracker counts 28 active Texas data center projects of 100 MW or more, with 14.2 GW of capacity under construction. Smaller projects are not included, so the total number of data center buildings going up in Texas is higher.
What is the largest data center in Texas?
By announced capacity, the largest active project on our tracker is listed first in the project table above. Several Texas campuses are planned at 1 GW or more, including Tract’s Caldwell Valley Technology Park near Lockhart, Amp Z’s Lufkin campus, Microsoft’s Pecos campus and Galaxy’s Helios campus in Dickens County.
Where are AI data centers in Texas?
Most of the new AI campuses are outside the big metros: Abilene, Sweetwater and Shackelford County in West Texas, Claude, Childress and Dickens County in the Panhandle, Pecos, and Milam County. In the metros, AI capacity is going up around Dallas-Fort Worth and along I-35 between Austin and San Antonio.
Who is building data centers in Texas?
The biggest developers on our tracker include Crusoe, Tract, Vantage Data Centers, IREN, Microsoft, Meta, Galaxy, SB Energy, Cipher Digital and Hut 8. Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Oracle are among the companies that will use the capacity. The developers table above ranks them by planned MW.
Has Texas paused new data centers?
Not all of them. In September 2026, Gov. Abbott ordered the TCEQ to halt permits sought by data centers until the ERCOT and Texas Water Development Board audits are finished. Projects already under construction are continuing. We update project statuses on this page every month.
Why are so many data centers being built in Texas?
Texas offers large sites, a fast-growing power supply including wind, solar and gas, a sales tax exemption for qualifying data centers, and fewer local land-use controls in unincorporated areas than most states. Its independent ERCOT grid has also let developers connect large loads faster than in many other regions, although that is now under review.
Does Google have data centers in Texas?
Yes. Google runs data centers in Midlothian and Red Oak, south of Dallas, and is building new campuses in Armstrong, Haskell, Wilbarger, Gray and Roberts counties as part of a $40 billion investment through 2027.
Does Meta have data centers in Texas?
Yes. Meta operates data centers in Fort Worth and Temple and is building a 1 GW campus in El Paso, expected to open in 2028.
For the national picture, see our US data center map, data center statistics and top US data center markets by city. Other state trackers: Georgia and North Carolina.