Texas is experiencing a significant increase in data center construction, with more than $1.4 billion allocated for new projects in December alone, according to filings from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. This amount represents over 40 percent of the total $3.4 billion invested in data center construction across the state for 2025.
Recent projects are mainly located within the central region of Texas, particularly in the Texas Triangle. Facebook has begun work on a $197 million project to expand its complex in Temple, situated between Austin and Waco along the I-35 corridor. The expansion involves a single-story, 145,000-square-foot data center at 2230 Eberhardt Road, scheduled for completion by September.
Google is leading with the largest investment this year: an $880 million one-story data center covering 288,000 square feet in Midlothian, just south of Dallas/Fort Worth. The demand for such facilities has placed Dallas/Fort Worth second nationally among data center markets in 2024, as reported by CBRE.
Additionally, Google has started another project this month in Haskell—a town over two hours west of Fort Worth—where it is building a $350 million facility spanning 350,000 square feet. This marks Google’s second major development in Haskell this year; earlier plans included a separate 280,000-square-foot building. Both facilities are being constructed near a new solar and battery storage plant.
While attention from some industry speculators is focused on Far West Texas and the Permian Basin due to its abundant energy resources and low population density, current developments are centered elsewhere. In Far West Texas specifically, CoreWeave and Poolside—a startup backed by Nvidia—are preparing to build Horizon, a 500-acre data center that will generate its own electricity using local oil and natural gas reserves.
The ongoing surge highlights continued growth within Texas’ commercial real estate sector related to technology infrastructure investments.
