Texas Data Center Dominance

geographic shift
Intense buildout, fueled by cheap power and land, is relocating the digital infrastructure center of gravity. This explosive growth affects everything from real estate values to regional labor for hyperscale facilities, colocation, and edge computing, demanding new approaches to power, cooling, network architecture, and AI workload management.
Texas Overtaking Virginia DCs
New analysis suggests that Texas may surpass Northern Virginia as the leading data center location due to explosive capacity expansion, while rising rental costs and power constraints are actively influencing the geographical distribution of new builds.
Texas Data Center Capacity
JLL projections indicate that Texas is positioned to become a dominant force in data center capacity generation by the year 2030.
Rowan Texas DC
Rowan secured $500 million in funding to support the development of a 300 megawatt data center project situated in San Antonio, Texas.