North Texas Data Center Intelligence Map

The Ellis County Epicenter
No place in America tells the data center story louder than Ellis County. The Google Midlothian campus anchored the corridor in 2019 and keeps growing, with a fifth building filed in 2026 at an estimated $880 million. The Google Red Oak campus went operational in November 2025. DataBank’s Red Oak campus closed a $2 billion construction loan for a 480-megawatt build designed for up to eight buildings. Compass Datacenters filled five buildings with a single tenant and is adding three more, while its contested 830-acre second campus won rezoning in May 2026 over the objections of more than 150 residents. Lincoln Property Company has 540 megawatts planned on another 131 acres. South of town, Cawley Partners’ 5,200-acre South Creek Ranch near Ferris leads with data centers before a single home gets built, and the PowerHouse and Provident campus north of US-67 is planned around a 1.8-gigawatt switchyard, one of the largest in the country.

The Lancaster Wave
Lancaster is the southern metroplex’s second front. STACK Infrastructure’s DFW02 is building six buildings and a dedicated Oncor substation on Belt Line Road. Skybox’s PowerCampus Dallas brings a 300-megawatt private substation to the I-35E frontage. Digital Realty has proposed up to thirteen buildings across more than 530 acres on two adjacent sites. Three institutional players choosing the same small city at the same time is not coincidence. It is a verdict on southern Dallas County land.

The Garland Corridor
Garland competed for this business and won it. Digital Realty’s Garland campus secured a 20-year sales tax rebate and is delivering its first 410,000-square-foot building in 2026. Stream Data Centers DFW VII and NTT’s growing campus sit on the same Lookout Drive corridor, and Prime Data Centers is adding three more buildings at Arapaho and Holford. One street in Garland now hosts three global operators.

The Established Core
The legacy backbone still carries the region. The Equinix Dallas Infomart on Stemmons Freeway is the interconnection heart of the South Central United States. QTS is doubling its Irving campus on the bones of an old semiconductor plant. Digital Realty’s Richardson campus keeps the Telecom Corridor honest with eight buildings and nine fiber providers, and CyrusOne’s Carrollton flagship runs zero-water cooling while hosting 911 dispatch for four cities.

The North and the Frontier
The boom’s edges are where the next decade gets decided. In Denton, Core Scientific is converting its Bitcoin facility into an AI campus with an investment of up to $6.1 billion and one of the largest GPU supercomputers in North America planned for 2027. In Plano, Aligned Data Centers is on its third campus and partnered on a $700 million AI project. In the Alliance corridor, Meta’s Fort Worth campus trains Llama models on 100 percent renewable power. West of Fort Worth, Prime Data Centers’ Aledo campus pushes more than a billion dollars of buildings toward the Parker County line. South down I-35, CyrusOne’s Whitney campus sits beside a power plant in Hill County, Riot Platforms holds a gigawatt of approved power in Corsicana, and the Infrakey project near Waco proposes 925 megawatts plus a gas plant bigger than any in McLennan County.