Texas Data Center Intelligence

Mapped Texas data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every Texas county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 221 data center buildings are mapped in 23 of its 254 counties, and businesses pay 8.56¢ per kWh for power, 36% below the US average.

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Where are Texas's data centers?

221 mapped buildings sit in 23 of Texas's 254 counties. Bexar County has the most: 61.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Tornadoes are the most common risk: 13 of the 23 counties with mapped data centers rate high for them.

Bars: counties with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high . Tap one to show it on the map.

All 254 counties as a table

County facts

What will a Texas site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

Business power in Texas costs 8.56¢ per kWh, 36% below the US, and demand grew 23% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

8.56¢ per kWh in 2025, 36% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses3rd cheapest of 51
Texas
8.56¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Texas grew 23% since 2019, more than twice the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes Texas's power?

601.0 TWh generated in 2025: natural gas 48%, wind 22%, coal 12%.

Natural gas48%
Wind22%
Coal12%
Solar11%
Nuclear7.0%

Under 1% each: other gases, wood, hydro, petroleum, other biomass. Other (EIA's catch-all) used more power than it made, so it is left out.

How much new power is proposed?

98,346 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, about half of today's 185,215 MW: solar 44%, other 29%, natural gas 22%, wind 5%.

Solar43,374 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)28,395 MW
Natural gas21,212 MW
Wind5,336 MW
Petroleum30 MW

Which grid would a Texas site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

ERCOT serves 88.2% of Texas's power sales; heat waves, tornadoes and drought cost it most.

Which grid serves Texas?

ERCOT serves 88.2% of Texas's retail power sales.

ERCOT88.2%
SPP5.6%
MISO4.9%
No ISO/RTO1.3%

Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority .

How much water do Texas's power plants use?

Texas's power plants took in 7,304 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 98%; 115 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 98.4%Used up 1.6%

Which hazards cost Texas most?

Heat waves, tornadoes and drought are Texas's biggest risks: each rates very high against other states .

Heat waveVery high
TornadoVery high
DroughtVery high
Inland floodingRelatively high
HurricaneRelatively high
WildfireRelatively high
Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
EarthquakeRelatively low

Which AI campuses are being built in Texas, and how big will they be?

Texas has 14 AI campuses on the list; 5 are being built, 4,142 MW planned in all. The biggest, OpenAI Stargate Shackelford, is planned at 1,400 MW , full size by Nov 2028.

OpenAI Stargate ShackelfordShackelford County
1,400 MWexpected first online Aug 2027 · full size Nov 2028
GoodnightArmstrong County
1,006 MWexpected first online Mar 2027 · full size Oct 2027
OpenAI Stargate MilamMilam County
857 MWexpected first online Dec 2028 · full size Dec 2028
Crusoe Abilene ExpansionNo county on record
672 MWexpected first online Sep 2027 · full size Nov 2027
Anthropic Barber LakeMitchell County
207 MWexpected first online Dec 2026 · full size Apr 2027

Bars: IT power expected at full size . Dates are Epoch AI's own estimates .

Other AI campuses in Texas: CoreWeave Denton TX, Coreweave Helios, Google Midlothian, Google Red Oak, Meta Temple, Microsoft SAT14, Microsoft SAT40, OpenAI Stargate Abilene, Vantage TX1.

Campuses without a county on record: Crusoe Abilene Expansion, OpenAI Stargate Abilene. They are left off the county map.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Texas's 254 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

Follow counties with data centers, their hearings and FEMA risk.

Bexar County61 mapped · risk relatively high
Taylor County40 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Dallas County30 mapped · risk very high

23counties with data centers to follow, each with its planning and zoning agendas

Land and industrial brokers

Rank counties by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.

Bexar County61
Taylor County40
Dallas County30
Collin County15
Ellis County15

61mapped buildings in Bexar County, the most in Texas

Site selection teams

Shortlist counties by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.

23of 254 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.

Texas+23%
US+10.5%

+23%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

Bars: how many of the counties with data centers rate high for each hazard.

Tornado13 of 23
Inland flooding9 of 23
Heat wave8 of 23
Drought4 of 23

16of 23 counties with mapped data centers rate high for at least one

Investors and analysts

Track AI campuses being built, their owners and users. Bars: MW expected at full size.

OpenAI Stargate Shackelford1,400 MW
Goodnight1,006 MW
OpenAI Stargate Milam857 MW
Crusoe Abilene Expansion672 MW

4,142MW planned at 5 AI campuses being built

What's inside Texas Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 254 Texas counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Texas's real data.

The Intelligence app

Every county's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/texas

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

221mapped buildings

14AI campuses

8.56¢business power, per kWh

+8%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Bexar County	61	Very high	high	moderate
Taylor County	40	moderate	moderate	moderate
Dallas County	30	Very high	Very high	low
Collin County	15	high	high	low
Ellis County	15	moderate	moderate	low

Hearings and filings

Follow counties and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.

Hearings · Texas

Texas · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Bexar County61 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Taylor County40 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Dallas County30 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Collin County15 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts

Alerts

New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.

Alerts · Texas

Power demandBusiness power sales +8% on the year before: 184.2 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskBexar County (61 mapped buildings) rates Very high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
AI campus being builtOpenAI Stargate Shackelford: 1,400 MW of IT power expected · first online Aug 2027 · full size Nov 2028Epoch AI

Data API

County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.

api.camsahead.com

GET /v1/counties/48029

{
  "fips": "48029",
  "name": "Bexar County",
  "state": "TX",
  "pop2025": 2160088,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 7.5,
  "density_per_sqmi": 1741.4,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively High",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Very High",
      "score": 99.7

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 99.4
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Moderate",
      "score": 69.5
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "ERCOT"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 5
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 8.56,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

Texas Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.

Texas Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county's sites, power, water and risk
Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings
Reports as web page, PDF and CSV
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Data APIFrom $999 a month

County, power, risk and project data as JSON
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Public bodies$4,680 a year

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What stays open? The map, the county pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.

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).
U.S. Census Bureau: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (co-est2025-alldata.csv): people by county.

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