Element Critical data center, Travis County, TX
8025 North Interstate Highway 35 Service Road · Travis County, TX
Source: OpenStreetMap
Element Critical data center in Travis County, TX is an operating facility, operated by Element Critical. DataCentersExposed has documented a 61,978 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkdata center
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentElement Critical
- Files asElement Critical
- This facilityElement Critical data center
The grid behind this site, right now
source: ERCOT · gridstatus- Natural Gas43.2%
- Solar37.3%
- Coal9.7%
- Nuclear5.6%
- Wind4.1%
Real-time generation mix for the ERCOT grid this site draws from, as of Aug 17, 2026, 8:04 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELT- Trump keeps boosting data centers, even as other Republicans grow critical - The Washington PostThe Washington Post· Aug 27, 2026
- Keller residents concerned about proposed data center near homes, elementary school - Fort Worth Star-TelegramFort Worth Star-Telegram· Jul 31, 2026
- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave - KCBDKCBD· Jul 10, 2026
- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave - galaxy.comgalaxy.com· Jul 6, 2026
- US 10-MWe nuclear reactor reaches criticality for commercial data center power - Interesting EngineeringInteresting Engineering· Jul 6, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
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.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Austin), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, The Excel Center (for Adults) in Austin, is 0.3 mi from this site (475 students). 10 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.