data centers
Texas Data Center Boom Runs Into ERCOT Freeze as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% National Vacancy
CBRE's North America Data Center Trends webinar for the first half of 2026 described record-low vacancy and a construction pipeline unlike any other,...
Texas Clears 424 Miles of Transmission Across Private Ranchland, Setting Up a Land-Rights Reckoning
The Public Utility Commission of Texas cleared Oncor to build the state's first 765-kilovolt transmission lines across roughly 424 miles of largely private...
Austin Clinches 20-Year, $200MM Whirlwind Wind Contract as Texas Power Demand Surges
The Austin City Council approved a 20-year power purchase agreement extension worth up to $200 million with Whirlwind Energy, locking in 60 megawatts...
Texas’s 12 Largest Planned Gas Plants Are All Built for Data Centers as Pipeline Tops 120 GW
A Global Energy Monitor analysis released in late August found that the 12 largest gas-fired power projects planned across Texas are all designed...
Hines Ranks Dallas-Fort Worth First in the Nation for $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A new Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide placed 18 of them in Dallas-Fort Worth, twice the count of...
Texas Freezes 474 GW Data Center Queue Amid $31.6 Trillion Global Buildout
Gov. Greg Abbott's order for a statewide audit of data center projects has stalled roughly 474 gigawatts of interconnection requests inside the ERCOT...
Texas Overtakes Virginia as World’s Largest Data Center Market, JLL Reports
Texas has vaulted past Virginia to become the largest data center market on the planet, driven by a construction pipeline concentrated in the...
Crescent Real Estate Enters Industrial, Hiring Hillwood Veteran Reid Goetz to Lead New Development Platform
Fort Worth-based Crescent Real Estate, the diversified investor and operator chaired by John Goff, has established a dedicated industrial investment and development platform...
Caldwell County Freezes Data Center Tax Breaks as Land-Deal Controversy Engulfs County Judge
Caldwell County commissioners voted unanimously to freeze tax abatements and incentive deals for data centers, a move that landed as County Judge Hoppy...
Wan Bridge’s W Land Development Pivots Into Data Centers With 1,000-Acre Off-Grid Site in West Texas
Houston residential land developer W Land Development is moving into digital infrastructure, putting a 1,000-acre West Texas site under contract as its first...
Abbott Freezes New Texas Data Centers, Orders Audit as Grid Requests Hit 474 Gigawatts
In a move that puts Texas at the center of the national fight over AI infrastructure, the governor has directed the Public Utility...
BlackRock Takes 80% Stake in Meta’s $12.3B El Paso Data Center as Off-Balance-Sheet AI Financing Spreads
The joint venture that handed BlackRock majority ownership of Meta's Northeast El Paso campus mirrors a Louisiana financing blueprint and has revived questions...
