Dallas–Fort Worth.
Texas leads every state with roughly 26 GW of data center capacity existing or under construction, and DFW is its engine — over 2 GW delivered in the first half of 2026 alone. It is a federal-OSHA state with statewide TDLR electrician licensing, an ERCOT grid writing new curtailment rules, and gigawatt campuses rising out of blackland prairie.
The market right now
The story in DFW is scale and speed. Colocation vacancy sits at 2.4%, what's under construction is 94.5% preleased, and the greenfield pipeline — Grand Prairie at 1.8 GW full-build, Lancaster, Red Oak — is measured in gigawatts. When ERCOT interconnection queues stretch, developers bridge with behind-the-meter gas and batteries, which quietly changes what kind of electrical hazards live on a data center campus.
- Texas leads all states with ~26 GW of existing + under-construction capacity (JLL H1 2026)
- DFW delivered over 2 GW in H1 2026 and absorbed even more than it delivered (JLL H1 2026)
- 470.8 MW net absorption in 2025, up 424 MW year-over-year (CBRE H2 2025)
- ~700 MW of colo under construction, 94.5% preleased, plus ~3 GW of planned greenfield (CBRE H2 2025)
- Colocation vacancy just 2.4% (CBRE H2 2025)
Every campus on the map
Solid copper markers are operating campuses; white markers are under construction; dashed outlines are announced or planned. Locations are approximate campus-level centroids compiled from public sources — county records, operator announcements, and market reports — as of August 2026. Dense clusters are grouped. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.
Operating campuses mapped
- Equinix Dallas Infomart campus — Equinix · Dallas (Stemmons). Region's primary carrier hotel and interconnection hub
- Aligned Plano campus — Aligned Data Centers · Plano. Multi-building high-density colocation campus
- QTS Irving mega campus — QTS (Blackstone) · Irving. One of QTS's flagship 700k+ sq ft campuses
- CyrusOne Carrollton — CyrusOne · Carrollton. Flagship large-footprint colocation facility
- Digital Realty Richardson cluster — Digital Realty · Richardson. Multiple buildings in the Telecom Corridor
- NTT Garland campus — NTT Global Data Centers · Garland. Multi-building hyperscale campus, one of NTT's largest US sites
- Meta Fort Worth campus — Meta · Fort Worth (Alliance corridor). Five-building, multi-million sq ft owned hyperscale campus (Meta)
- Google Midlothian — Google · Midlothian. Owned campus launched with $600M initial investment (Google)
- Edged Dallas — Edged (Endeavour) · Lancaster. Waterless-cooling colocation facility in southern Dallas County
- Compass Red Oak campus — Compass Datacenters · Red Oak. Large build-to-suit campus, still expanding
- DataBank Dallas cluster — DataBank · Dallas / Plano. Multiple enterprise colocation sites across the metro
Under construction & planned
- Grand Prairie mega campus — Provident / PowerHouse Data Centers · Grand Prairie · planned. 768 acres; 500 MW phase one, 1.8 GW full build — among the largest US campuses (RackSolutions 2025)
- Stack Lancaster campus — Stack Infrastructure · Lancaster · planned. 220 MW AI-ready campus announced (RackSolutions 2025)
- Lincoln Red Oak project — Lincoln Property Co. · Red Oak · planned. 131 acres, 800k+ sq ft, 540 MW planned (RackSolutions 2025)
- Microsoft Irving facilities — Microsoft · Irving · planned. 4 facilities with 50% property tax abatements (RackSolutions 2025)
- QTS Irving expansion — QTS · Irving · planned. 3 additional facilities, completion deadline Jan 2029 (RackSolutions 2025)
- Prime Data Centers Garland — Prime Data Centers · Garland · planned. ~54-acre site at Arapaho and Holford Roads (RackSolutions 2025)
- DFW colo pipeline (multiple operators) — Various · Metro-wide · under construction. ~700 MW colo under construction, 94.5% preleased (CBRE H2 2025)
Power
Service territory: Oncor Electric Delivery · ERCOT (grid operator) · Garland Power & Light (Garland sites).
- Land inquiries and power requests to Oncor at unprecedented rates; new controls restrict entry into the power queue (CBRE H2 2025)
- Texas SB6 (2025) imposes interconnection rules and emergency curtailment obligations on large loads like data centers
- Behind-the-meter power solutions (on-site gas generation, BESS) increasingly used to bridge grid delays (CBRE H2 2025)
The regulatory picture
Enforcement. Federal OSHA jurisdiction (no state plan) — Region VI; national emphasis programs incl. heat illness apply to outdoor construction and rooftop/yard electrical work
Licensing. Statewide TDLR licensing: apprentice, wireman, journeyman and master electrician classes; electrical contractors licensed through TDLR
Also in play. Aggressive local incentives — Irving granted Microsoft and QTS 50% property tax reductions for 7 planned facilities (RackSolutions 2025); Texas JETI program offers school-tax abatements
What it means for the work
Watch two things here: heat and curtailment. Summer energized work in 105°F yards makes arc-rated PPE a heat-stress calculation as much as a protection one, and SB6-driven load-shed events turn 'rare switching operations' into scheduled ones.
Behind-the-meter gas generation and BESS colocation growing as ERCOT queue tightens — new commissioning and switching hazards on campus
Federal OSHA jurisdiction with heat-illness emphasis — summer outdoor electrical construction risk
1+ GW greenfield mega campuses (Grand Prairie, Red Oak, Lancaster) mean years of energized commissioning alongside live halls
Texas SB6 curtailment rules push operators toward on-site generation and load-transfer operations
Market context is half the picture. The other half is the decision walk — the nine questions the 2027 edition asks before anyone opens a door on energized gear. Run it against the task, then check the room pages in the Data Center Application Series.
NFPA 70E classes taught on the 2027 edition, against data center topology, about 55 times a year — live virtual weekly, and private onsite days in Dallas–Fort Worth run against your one-lines for crews of 15 or more.