Who owns Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area)?

Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) is operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc..

How much power does Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) use?

Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) has a reported power capacity of 500 MW.

What tax breaks has Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) received?

Amazon.com, Inc. has received $16.7M in tracked tax abatements across its sites. No state discloses the recipient at the individual-facility level.

Has Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area).

Where is Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) located?

Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) is in Riesel, McLennan County, TX.

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Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area)

Riesel, McLennan County, TX

Source: Primary source

Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area) is a proposed data center in McLennan County, TX, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 500 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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Real parent

Amazon.com, Inc.

Operator

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Power

500 MW

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Cipher plans a 500MW data center campus near a coal plant outside Waco, Texas. Discovered from news coverage and promoted after review; details to be enriched from primary sources.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Files as
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
This facility
Cipher Riesel Data Center Campus (Waco area)

In the news

source: GDELT

Cipher looks to build 500MW campus near coal plant outside Waco, Texas - Data Center Dynamics
Data Center Dynamics· Jun 8, 2026

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source

Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~9.4M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~5.1M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~4.3M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 500 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Foster El in Riesel, is 0.3 mi from this site (329 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.