Collin County, Texas
DataCentersExposed tracks 12 AI data centers in Collin County, Texas — 5 operating and 0 in the pipeline, drawing 42 MW of reported power demand, led by Flexential Corp.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 23
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in Collin County
Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 42 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.
Flexential Corp. has the largest presence in Collin 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.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 7 standardized 36 MW campuses in Collin County by 2035 — roughly 252 MW of new electricity demand and ~244 M gal/yr of cooling water. For scale, we currently track 12 real data centers in Collin County (42 MW of reported power).
- Higher growth7252 MW · ~244 M gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Collin 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.
Every tracked facility
| Facility | Operator | Status | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataBank Plano Data Center Plano | Prime Data Centers | 20 | |
| Flexential Dallas - Plano Plano | Flexential Corp. | 18 | |
| Flexential Dallas - Richardson Richardson | Flexential Corp. | Mapped (unverified) | 3.75 |
| Aligned Data Centers Plano | Prime Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Cisco Allen | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| CyrusOne Allen | CyrusOne LLC | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| DFW-04 Data Center Plano | — | — | |
| Experian Data Center Allen Allen | — | — | |
| Evoque Allen DA1 Allen | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Experian McKinney Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Stream DFW IV | Stream Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Tierpoint Dallas-Allen | TierPoint, LLC | — |
County commissioners
How the Collin 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.