I’m already tired of the words data and center, but people are curious so I’ve worked out a way to create a map of new data center construction in Texas. This one requires quite a few caveats.
I’ve pulled data from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, where any construction over $50,000 must be registered to comply with building accessibility requirements (these are buildings subject to Texas Accessibility Standards, i.e. commercial and public buildings, not houses). You can search those here:
https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/tabs/search
Each of these filings has a detail page like this:
https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2026006556
I then searched all of these projects by field (which as you can see above include Project Name, Scope of Work, Square Footage and Cost amongst others) for the right combination of phrases and variables to give a proxy for ‘New Data Center Construction’ - Searching project names for “data center” — the obvious way — finds 110 of the 663 filings. Operators file under code names: Project Pumpkin, Project Eagle, DA12-2, Sharka. I had to go deeper into the detail pages to find a better set.
SO….this is not a definitive list. It includes many alterations/additions of existing structures to be turned into data centers (you’ll have to click the interactive legend on the map to include these) - and many of those are honestly NOT full data centers in the sense that most of us understand. They are internal company data infrastructure (it’s impossible for me to filter all those out while keeping many that are large scale data centers).
It also will not include many of the newer projects you are hearing about on the news, because those haven’t gotten through zoning, etc. to get to a place where they need to file this TDLR form.
I would love to hear anyone’s input on how I can improve this. But I now have a nice database of all the TDLR projects, so if you need any information parsed from it, feel free to email me at robert@themap.io
