Dallas County, Texas
DataCentersExposed tracks 26 AI data centers in Dallas County, Texas — 12 operating and 5 in the pipeline, drawing 2.9 GW of reported power demand, led by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 34
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in Dallas County
Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 2.9 GW 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.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has the largest presence in Dallas 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 13 standardized 36 MW campuses in Dallas County by 2035 — roughly 468 MW of new electricity demand and ~453 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 30 campuses (1.1 GW). For scale, we currently track 26 real data centers in Dallas County (2.9 GW of reported power).
- Low growth11396 MW · ~383 M gal/yr cooling water
- Moderate growth13468 MW · ~453 M gal/yr cooling water
- High growth15540 MW · ~522 M gal/yr cooling water
- Higher growth301.1 GW · ~1.0 billion gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Dallas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Oranger (WHL Dallas 45 LLC) Lancaster | — | Proposed | 252 |
| Stemmons Corridor data campus Dallas | CleanArc | Proposed | 70 |
| Project Labrador (WHL Dallas 45 LLC) Lancaster | — | Proposed | — |
| PowerHouse/Provident Grand Prairie Grand Prairie | PowerHouse Data Centers | Under construction | 1,800 |
| Digital Realty Garland Garland | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Under construction | 160 |
| PowerCampus Dallas by Lancaster Data Center Campus LP Lancaster | — | 300 | |
| QTS Irving - Dallas Data Center Campus Irving | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | 147 | |
| Digital Realty Dallas DFW17 Richardson | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | 100 |
| Richardson Data Center Richardson | — | 24 | |
| Prime DFW01-01 Dallas | — | Mapped (unverified) | 12 |
| TierPoint Dallas Data Center Dallas | TierPoint, LLC | 11.1 | |
| DataBank Dallas Empire Central Data Center Dallas | DataBank Holdings, Ltd. | 4 | |
| Equinix N Stemmons Freeway Dallas DALLAS | Equinix, Inc. | 3 | |
| CoreSpace Dallas Dallas | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| DataBank Dallas | DataBank Holdings, Ltd. | — | |
| Digital Realty DFW36 Dallas | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Flexential Dallas - Downtown Dallas Dallas | Flexential Corp. | — | |
| Kyndryl Dallas Data Center Dallas | — | — | |
| Live Oak Data Center Dallas | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Lumen Dallas - 3180 Irving Blvd. Dallas | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | — | |
| Lumen Dallas 6 | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| QTS Wilmer (DFW2 and DC1) Lancaster | — | — | |
| Rackspace Richardson DFW3 Richardson | Rackspace Technology, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Rad Web Hosting Dallas | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Stream Data Centers | Prime Data Centers | — | |
| Virtbiz Dallas | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
County commissioners
How the Dallas 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.