Texas is seeing a surge in data center construction, with Google and Facebook together investing more than $1.4 billion in new facilities across the state this December, according to filings from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. This amount represents over 40 percent of the total $3.4 billion registered for new data center projects in Texas during 2025.
The current wave of development is focused on central locations within Texas rather than the energy-rich Permian Basin region. Two major projects are underway in the Texas Triangle.
Facebook has committed $197 million to build a 145,000-square-foot, single-story data center at its complex in Temple, situated between Austin and Waco along the I-35 corridor. Construction at 2230 Eberhardt Road began earlier this week, with completion scheduled for September.
Google’s largest project this year is a one-story, 288,000-square-foot data center in Midlothian, just south of Dallas/Fort Worth. The company has allocated $880 million for this facility. Demand for data centers has positioned Dallas/Fort Worth as the second-largest market nationally for such developments in 2024, based on research by CBRE (https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/north-america-data-center-trends-h2-2024).
In Haskell, located more than two hours west of Fort Worth in the Panhandle Plains region, Google started work this month on a $350 million project covering 350,000 square feet. This marks Google’s second data center project in Haskell; an earlier plan was filed for a separate 280,000-square-foot building. Both facilities are being constructed near a new solar and battery storage plant developed by Google.
While these sites are not located in Far West Texas’s Permian Basin—where companies like CoreWeave and Nvidia-backed Poolside are planning Horizon, a self-powered 500-acre data center—the trend reflects growing interest statewide due to available power resources and increasing demand for cloud computing infrastructure.
“Demand for data centers put DFW in second place nationally among data center markets in 2024,” according to CBRE.
