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DataCentersExposed
County data-center profile

Bexar County, Texas

DataCentersExposed tracks 26 AI data centers in Bexar County, Texas — 4 operating and 4 in the pipeline, drawing 632 MW of reported power demand, led by Microsoft Corporation. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.

Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard

Facilities
26
Operating
4
Pipeline
4

Reporting by · Updated May 29, 2026

Risk breakdown
45Moderate
  • Project exposure · 38
  • Power demand · 55
  • Water draw · n/a
  • Land footprint · n/a
Overview

What's happening in Bexar County

Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 632 MW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.

Microsoft Corporation has the largest presence in Bexar County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.

Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.

Modeled scenario · not announced

2035 Buildout Outlook

via PNNL IM3 (CC BY 4.0)

Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 11 standardized 36 MW campuses in Bexar County by 2035 — roughly 396 MW of new electricity demand and ~383 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 66 campuses (2.4 GW). For scale, we currently track 26 real data centers in Bexar County (632 MW of reported power).

Modeled new campuses by demand-growth scenario
  • Low growth7
    252 MW · ~244 M gal/yr cooling water
  • Moderate growth11
    396 MW · ~383 M gal/yr cooling water
  • High growth37
    1.3 GW · ~1.3 billion gal/yr cooling water
  • Higher growth66
    2.4 GW · ~2.3 billion gal/yr cooling water

The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Bexar County (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.

These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.

26 facilities

Every tracked facility

FacilityOperatorStatusMW
Black Mountain Power Data Center
Van Ormy/ San Antonio
Black Mountain PowerProposed
Stream San Antonio Campus
San Antonio
Stream Data CentersUnder construction200
AWS Rockfish 1
San Antonio
Under construction
AWS Rockfish 3
San Antonio
Under construction
Microsoft San Antonio (Quarry)
San Antonio
Microsoft CorporationMapped (unverified)380
CyrusOne SAT10 & SAT11CyrusOne LLCMapped (unverified)32
Stream San Antonio IIStream Data CentersOperating10.8
CyrusOne San Antonio I
San Antonio
CyrusOne LLCOperating9
AmazonAmazon.com, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
Amazon AWS SAT - 12807 DonopAmazon.com, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
CHRISTUS HealthMapped (unverified)
Citicorp Data Systems
San Antonio
Operating
CyrusOne San Antonio IIICyrusOne LLCMapped (unverified)
Frost BankMapped (unverified)
GvtcMapped (unverified)
H5 Data Centers San Antonio
San Antonio
Prime Data CentersOperating
Heb
San Antonio
Mapped (unverified)
Lowe's Data CenterPrime Data CentersMapped (unverified)
Lumen San Antonio 2Lumen Technologies, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
MicrosoftMicrosoft CorporationMapped (unverified)
Microsoft
San Antonio
Microsoft CorporationMapped (unverified)
Microsoft San Antonio
San Antonio
Microsoft CorporationMapped (unverified)
QTS San Antonio II
San Antonio
QTS Realty Trust, LLCMapped (unverified)
Texas Cryptologic CenterMapped (unverified)
Valero WisermanMapped (unverified)
Vantage Data Centers TX22
San Antonio
Vantage Data Centers Holdings, LLCMapped (unverified)
Accountability

County commissioners

How the Bexar County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.

Methodology & sources

The risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%). Water and land are not yet measured for our facilities, so those arcs render as "not yet measured" and the weights are renormalized over the factors we can source today — when the data lands, the score updates.

Every row carries a confidence level (high / medium / low) and a source URL. Spot an error? Tell us.