Texas data centers map
Texas has 221 mapped data center buildings, the 2nd most of any state. Bexar County has the most: 61. 5 large AI campuses are being built; the first is expected online in Dec 2026. Businesses pay 8.56¢ per kWh for power, 36% below the US average. Business power use grew 23% from 2019 to 2025, about twice the US rate.
- 221mapped data center buildings
- 61in Bexar County, the most
- 5large AI campuses being built
- 8.56¢per kWh for businesses36% below the US average
About mapped buildings
Buildings and sites that OpenStreetMap volunteers have tagged as data centers. It counts mapped objects, not an official register, so some data centers are not on it yet.
About large AI campuses
A large data center campus built for AI computing, on Epoch AI's list of AI data centers. “Being built” means Epoch AI lists no computers running there yet.
About business power prices
This is the average price businesses paid for power in Texas in 2025. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the power a 1,000-watt heater uses in one hour.
“Businesses” is the commercial group in the US Energy Information Administration's figures: offices, stores and most data centers. Some large data centers buy power as industry instead.
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AI campuses: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0 (Nov 7, 2026), changes noted
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What the marks mean
Operating: a building mapped as a data center in OpenStreetMap, in use today. As of Nov 6, 2026.
Proposed to under construction, paused, withdrawn or canceled: a planned project and the stage in its latest public record. As of Nov 7, 2026.
About the stages: a project moves from Proposed to Rezoning filed, Approved, Permitted and Under construction. Some stop: Paused, Withdrawn or Canceled.
AI campus: a large AI campus that is not running yet. As of Nov 7, 2026.
Campuses and projects not placed at their street address are listed, not mapped.
Each kind of mark is counted on its own, and the counts are never added together.
Which Texas counties have the most data centers?
Bexar County has the most mapped buildings: 61. Taylor County is next, with 40.
Buildings mapped as data centers, per county
- None
- 1
- 2–4
- 5–9
- 10–24
- 25–99
How many in each county?
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Not placed in a county: Crusoe Abilene Expansion (Abilene address)
Which natural risks do these counties face?
About the risk ratings
FEMA's National Risk Index scores each county for each natural hazard from 0 to 100, against every county in the US. The score starts from the expected annual loss: the damage a hazard is likely to cause in an average year. It also weighs how many people could be hurt and how well the area can bounce back.
Ratings run from very low to very high.
“Rate high” means relatively high or very high.
20 of the 23 counties with mapped data centers rate high or very high for at least one natural hazard. Lightning is the most common, with 14.
What does power cost in Texas, and how fast is demand growing?
Businesses pay 8.56¢ per kWh, 36% below the US average, and their power use grew 23% from 2019 to 2025, about twice the US rate.
What do businesses pay for power?
8.56¢ per kWh in 2025, the 3rd lowest of 50 states and DC.
Is Texas's power demand rising?
About business power use
This is the power sold to businesses each year, the commercial group in the US Energy Information Administration's figures. Most data centers are in it, so a fast rise often means new data centers, but offices and stores count too.
Texas: 142 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2019, 174.68 TWh in 2025. One TWh is a billion kWh.
Yes. Business power use grew 23% from 2019 to 2025, about twice the US rate.
What makes Texas's power?
About the power mix
This is where the power generated in Texas came from in 2025: each source's share of what its power plants made, 601 terawatt-hours (TWh) in all. Small rooftop solar panels are not counted.
Other sources used more power than they made in 2025, so they are left out.
“Other sources” is the agency's catch-all group.
Natural gas made 48% of the power generated in Texas in 2025; wind made 22%.
Under 1% each: other gases, hydro, wood, other biomass and petroleum.
How much new power is proposed in Texas?
About proposed power plants
These are new power plants that companies have told the US Energy Information Administration they plan to open from 2026 to 2030. Plans can change or be dropped.
Sizes are net summer capacity: the most power a plant can send to the grid on a hot summer day. Each bar's length is its part of all the proposed power.
Companies have proposed 98,346 MW of new power plants for 2026 to 2030; solar is the largest source, 43,374 MW.
For scale, Texas's power plants could deliver 185,215 MW on a summer day in 2025.
Which grid serves Texas, and what are its water and hazard risks?
ERCOT runs the grid for 88.2% of Texas's power sales. 9 natural hazards rate very high for Texas against other states.
Who runs Texas's power grid?
About the grid
A grid operator, called an ISO or RTO, runs the high-voltage power lines and the power market for a whole region. The share is how much of the state's 2025 power sales were made inside its area.
Where there is none, each utility runs its own part of the grid.
ERCOT, for 88.2% of 2025 power sales.
How much water do Texas's power plants use?
About water taken in and used up
Taken in is the water power plants draw from rivers, lakes, wells or the sea to cool. Used up is the part that does not go back: most of it evaporates.
This is the water power plants use, not the water data centers use.
The 91 power plants in Texas that report their cooling water used up 115 billion gallons in 2024, 1.6% of the 7,304 billion they took in.
Which hazards cost Texas most?
About expected annual loss
FEMA's National Risk Index estimates each natural hazard's expected annual loss: the damage it is likely to cause in an average year. It rates each state against the other states, from very low to very high.
Hazards with the same rating are in the order of FEMA's score. Because each hazard is compared with other states, one can rate higher here and still cost fewer dollars than another.
Not rated: tsunami (insufficient data) and volcanic activity (not applicable).
Hail, tornado and winter weather rate highest for Texas against other states: very high for the damage they are likely to cause in an average year.
- Very highHail, tornado, winter weather, cold wave, heat wave, drought, lightning, strong wind and ice storm
- Relatively highInland flooding, hurricane and wildfire
- Relatively moderateCoastal flooding
- Relatively lowEarthquake
- Very lowLandslide and avalanche
Which data center projects are planned in Texas?
5 large AI campuses are being built in Texas. The biggest, OpenAI Stargate Shackelford, is expected to reach 1,400 MW for its computers by Nov 2028; the first, Anthropic Barber Lake, is expected online in Dec 2026.
- OpenAI Stargate ShackelfordShackelford County, Texas1,400 MWexpected online Aug 2027 · full size Nov 2028
- GoodnightArmstrong County, Texas1,006 MWexpected online Mar 2027 · full size Oct 2027
- OpenAI Stargate MilamMilam County, Texas857 MWexpected online Dec 2028 · full size Dec 2028
- Crusoe Abilene ExpansionAbilene, Texas672 MWexpected online Sep 2027 · full size Nov 2027
- Anthropic Barber LakeMitchell County, Texas207 MWexpected online Dec 2026 · full size Apr 2027
Hatched: expected at full size, not built yet. About the dates
What the dates mean
Not yet operating means the site is still being built or planned. Its computers are not running yet. The year shown is when Epoch AI expects them to start.
First online is the month Epoch AI expects the first computers to switch on. Full size is the month it expects the whole campus to be built. Dates can slip.
Epoch AI, a research group, makes these estimates from satellite photos, permits and company news. They can be off by a fair amount.
About MW
A megawatt (MW) measures how much power a site is built to handle at one time. Think of the size of a pipe, not the water that flows through it over a year.
1,000 MW is one gigawatt (GW).
For an AI campus, this is the power its computers are built for, not cooling or offices.
Are there AI data centers in Texas?
Yes. Texas has 14 large AI campuses.
- Anthropic Barber Lake
- CoreWeave Denton TX
- Coreweave Helios
- Crusoe Abilene Expansion
- Goodnight
- Google Midlothian
- Google Red Oak
- Meta Temple
- Microsoft SAT14
- Microsoft SAT40
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene
- OpenAI Stargate Milam
- OpenAI Stargate Shackelford
- Vantage TX1
AI data centers in Texas, by campus · AI data center power by state · Stargate data centers
Who runs Texas's data centers?
About this count
Each building counts once, by the operator named in OpenStreetMap. 126 buildings have no operator named.
Microsoft runs the most mapped buildings: 14.
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More about Texas data centers
Questions about Texas data centers
How many data centers are in Texas?
Texas has 221 data center buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap, the 2nd most of any state, as of November 6, 2026. Epoch AI tracks 14 large AI campuses here. These counts are kept apart.
What county in Texas has the most data centers?
Bexar County has the most: 61 data center buildings. They are mapped in OpenStreetMap. That is as of November 6, 2026. Taylor County is next, with 40.
How many AI data centers are there in Texas?
Epoch AI tracks 14 large AI campuses in Texas, as of November 7, 2026. AI data centers in Texas lists each one. Other data centers here show as mapped buildings or project records, and each is counted on its own.
What is the biggest data center being built in Texas?
Of the 5 sites in Texas on Epoch AI's list of campuses not yet running, the biggest is OpenAI Stargate Shackelford. Epoch AI expects it to be built for up to 1,400 MW for its computers. AI data centers in Texas lists every campus there by size.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: data center buildings, as of November 6, 2026; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, free copy on request.
- Epoch AI: "AI data centers", CC BY 4.0, retrieved November 7, 2026; changes noted.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-861 (released Oct 2026) and Form EIA-861 2025 detailed data (released Oct 2026): business power prices and sales by state, grid operators and utilities by county; retrieved October 31, 2026.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Forms EIA-923/906/920 (released Sep 2026): power generated by source, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plants proposed for 2026 to 2030; retrieved October 31, 2026.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plant capacity by state, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): thermoelectric cooling water data 2024, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 (retrieved Oct 2026): power plant cooling water by state.
- FEMA: National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), NRI_Table_Counties and NRI_Table_States: natural hazard ratings by county and expected annual loss by state; retrieved October 31, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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