Texas is still waiting for snow, but the data center cascade doesn’t show signs of stopping.
In December alone, the combined construction budget for new data centers in Texas exceeds $1.4 billion, according to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filings. That’s over 40 percent of the total $3.4 billion cost of new data center construction projects registered in 2025.
While data center speculators are bullish on the Permian Basin — an energy-rich, sparsely populated region in Far West Texas — this month’s projects are more centrally located in the state, with two in the Texas Triangle.
Facebook is spending $197 million to add a 145,00-square-foot, single-story data center to its complex in Temple, a city between Austin and Waco on the I-35 corridor, according to a filing that scheduled the project’s start date as Monday of this week. The building at 2230 Eberhardt Road is slated for completion in September.
The most expensive of these projects all year is in Midlothian, just south of Dallas/Fort Worth, where Google has budgeted $880 million for a one-story, 288,000-square-foot data center. Demand for data centers put DFW in second place nationally among data center markets in 2024, according to CBRE.
And in Haskell, a Panhandle Plains town more than two hours west of Fort Worth, Google began work on a $350 million, 350,000-square-foot project this month. It’s the company’s second data center project in the area, following plans for a 280,000-square-foot building filed earlier this year. The facilities are going up near a new solar and battery storage plant, according to Google.
Haskell is West Texas, but it’s not Far West Texas, where cloud computing company CoreWeave and Poolside, a Nvidia-backed startup, are planning a 500-acre data center named Horizon. Capitalizing on the promise of cheap power offered by the Permian Basin’s oil and natural gas reserves, Horizon will generate its own electricity.
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