Data center site offices in Texas: The Grid, nationwide.

Texas has 140 data centers under construction and 610 announced as of March 2026, the largest pipeline in the country, concentrated in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, San Antonio, the Austin-Temple corridor and the new gigawatt campuses at Abilene, Amarillo and Milam County, according to Aterio. JOLT delivers The Grid, a badge-ready 40 ft container site office, to any Texas data center site.

Texas has 962 sites operating, under construction or announced against Virginia's 954. It got there on power a utility will commit to, land in 500-acre parcels, permitting that finishes in months, and no state income tax. For a site logistics manager, that means Texas is where the next three years of mobilizations are, and this page is about getting an office onto each one.

Where are data centers being built in Texas right now?

The work is in five places.

Dallas-Fort Worth. The suburbs south, north and east of Dallas carry the largest share of the state's construction: Garland, Allen, Plano and Richardson on the north side, Red Oak and Midlothian in Ellis County to the south, and the Alliance corridor in north Fort Worth. CyrusOne's campus at Red Oak is planned at 300 megawatts, with its first phase reported delivered in late 2025 and later phases under construction. Google is building at Midlothian. Digital Realty continues to expand at Richardson.

San Antonio. The Westover Hills area on the west side has become one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the country, on power from CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric utility in the United States, and on proximity to the military and government installations that drive classified computing demand. Microsoft has a major campus expansion under way and Compass Datacenters has broken ground on greenfield sites.

Austin, Round Rock and Temple. Austin's growth is steadier than San Antonio's, held back by the same power and water constraints as the city's other construction. Meta's Austin-area campus continues to expand. The largest single project in the corridor is Meta's multi-million-dollar, 900,000-square-foot campus near Temple, targeting completion in late 2027.

Abilene and the Panhandle. The Stargate campus at Abilene, the flagship of the OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank program, broke ground with eight buildings and more than 5 gigawatts of planned capacity. Near Amarillo, Fermi America's HyperGrid campus is planned at up to 11 gigawatts, the largest single site by planned capacity in the country, with its own generation.

Milam County and the rural east. Project Freebird in Milam County, between Temple and Bryan, is a Stargate satellite on land that was pasture two years ago. Houston carries colocation and enterprise builds rather than hyperscale campuses.

Texas project phases and names change quarterly, so JOLT checks the Abilene, Panhandle, Metroplex and Milam County work against county filings or local reporting at every refresh.

Which hyperscalers, developers and general contractors are active in Texas?

The owners are the ones you would expect and a few you would not have expected two years ago: Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and OpenAI through Stargate, CyrusOne, Compass Datacenters, Digital Realty, Fermi America, and the colocation operators building 20-to-60-megawatt buildings around the hyperscale campuses.

The general contractors with data center groups working in Texas include Turner, DPR, Holder, JE Dunn, Rogers-O'Brien, Balfour Beatty, Clayco, HITT, Mortenson, Whiting-Turner, Fluor, McCarthy and Austin Commercial, with the mechanical and electrical scopes carried by national subs who follow the GCs from campus to campus. On a Texas hyperscale building the electrical contractor is the largest trade on site and mobilizes its own offices before the GC's temp power is energized; Command's generator inlet and LTE cameras fit that crew.

Texas keeps those owners with a property-tax abatement program, the successor to Chapter 313, and a state sales-tax exemption on qualifying data center equipment. The legislature has signaled it intends to keep the incentives, which is why the announced column keeps growing.

What does a Texas data center site office need?

Heat, wind and clay.

Heat. Dallas, Austin and San Antonio run above 100 degrees for weeks in July and August; Abilene and Amarillo do the same with lower humidity. A 320-square-foot steel box in the sun needs real cooling, not a window unit. The Grid's insulated shell uses R-19 walls and an R-30 roof, with two cold-climate heat pumps.

Wind. The Panhandle and the Abilene plains see sustained wind, and a straight-line storm on the Blackland Prairie will move anything on a smooth pad. DC Deploy includes four-point anchoring, with the placement method matched to the prepared site.

Clay. The expansive clay of the Blackland Prairie under Dallas, Temple and Milam County swells wet and shrinks dry, which is why trailers on blocks go out of level by August. A Grid sits on leveling cribbing at its corner castings, and on-campus relocation can reset the office as the site changes.

How does The Grid get to a Texas site?

Texas projects receive the same freight, placement, leveling, four-point anchoring, electrical rough-in walkthrough and pickup package described on nationwide delivery.

What does a Grid cost on a Texas data center site?

Texas uses the published Grid rents and terms on the data center pricing page. DC Deploy is quoted per campus.

What is the power picture in Texas and when does temp power land?

Texas is its own grid. ERCOT runs the interconnection, and the wires belong to Oncor in Dallas-Fort Worth, CPS Energy in San Antonio, Austin Energy in Austin, and AEP Texas, Xcel and the cooperatives in the west. The large-load queue is long. Texas's 2025 large-load law, Senate Bill 6, added interconnection standards and emergency-curtailment provisions for the biggest loads, and the gigawatt campuses at Abilene, Amarillo and Richland Parish next door in Louisiana are all building on-site generation rather than waiting on the queue.

For a site office, the utility's timeline matters on one day: the day the office lands. On a Texas greenfield campus the GC's temporary service is two to eight weeks behind the first mobilization. Grid Command carries a 50 A generator inlet with a mechanical interlock; a generator on that inlet powers the office until the temp panel is energized, with the site electrician confirming the load plan. JOLT's 25 kW generator is $1,850/mo plus fuel and is cancelled the day the shore cord goes on.

Do you need a permit for a temporary site office in Texas?

Usually not a separate one. In most Texas jurisdictions a temporary construction office is a construction-phase structure covered under the project's building permit and shown on the site logistics plan. Some cities, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin among them, issue a temporary-structure permit and ask for an anchoring detail. On unincorporated county land, where Abilene's outer campus, Milam County and most of the Panhandle sites sit, county building-permit authority is limited and the site plan is the only filing.

The one thing every Texas AHJ asks about is the anchoring, because of the wind. Four-point anchoring is on every Grid as delivered. Confirm the requirement with the AHJ named on your building permit, and bring the AHJ's anchoring request to the data center specialist before the delivery window.

How do multi-building Texas campuses use a Grid Campus?

An eight-building campus at Abilene or a 300-megawatt campus at Red Oak is built one or two buildings at a time over three to five years. The GC's project office, the owner's rep, the electrical contractor, the mechanical contractor and the security office all move as the work moves.

A Grid Campus is 2 to 12 Grids in a row or stacked two-high. The Stack Kit is $395/mo plus $1,500 setup per stacked pair, and on-campus relocation is $1,250 per move. An order of 6 or more Command units earns a $825/mo monthly rent credit for the first 12 months.

Which Texas counties and metros does JOLT serve?

All of them. The counties carrying data center construction today: Dallas, Collin, Denton, Tarrant and Ellis in the Metroplex; Bexar in San Antonio; Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bell in the Austin-Temple corridor; Taylor at Abilene; Potter and Randall at Amarillo; Milam; Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery in Houston. Other Texas counties can be quoted too; DC Deploy is quoted per campus in one business day and the window is 6–8 weeks.

Nearby markets with JOLT pages are Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona and Georgia.

Separate the ERCOT large-load process from construction service

Texas Senate Bill 6 addresses large electrical loads in the ERCOT region. The enrolled bill text directs the Public Utility Commission to establish standards for interconnecting large loads and addresses load reduction during grid emergencies.

Those rules belong to the permanent campus power program. A jobsite office is coordinated through the utility or municipal provider serving the parcel and the project's temporary distribution. Ask for the temporary meter or service identifier, available connection, panel location and energization milestone. Do not use the permanent interconnection date as proof that the office pad has power.

Map the parties in writing. The project electrician should identify the utility, account contact and electrical-package owner for each construction-service question. That project-specific map is safer than inferring responsibility from a market name.

Command's generator inlet can be part of the mobilization plan before temporary service is available. The site electrician still owns the source and load review. Record which loads may be connected, who authorizes the change to shore power and what site procedure controls the equipment.

Use the actual Texas permitting boundary

Texas data-center names often describe the nearest city rather than the governing jurisdiction. A Metroplex campus can sit in a city, an extraterritorial area or unincorporated county territory. Start with the parcel address and the authority on the project's permit, not the market label.

For a city site, ask building, planning and fire reviewers whether the office appears on the master logistics plan or needs a temporary-use or structure approval. For unincorporated land, confirm county requirements and any fire-code authority rather than assuming there is no review. Utility providers and private development agreements can also require documents even when a city building permit does not.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation architectural-barriers guidance explains the state's accessibility review program. Ask the project architect whether the temporary office and its route are included in the registered project. If accessible entry is required, coordinate the available ADA ramp and landing before placement.

Keep written jurisdiction answers with the delivery plan. Texas annexations, special districts and utility boundaries do not follow a superintendent's mental map. A short email from the responsible authority is more useful than a note that the site is “near Dallas.”

Plan the pad for heat, drainage and severe weather

The National Weather Service heat-safety page collects guidance and resources for heat hazards. The site also needs an operating plan for electrical continuity, HVAC access and prompt reporting of equipment problems during hot weather.

Keep condensers clear of stored material and vehicle paths. Preserve both door routes as fencing and material laydown shift.

Drainage deserves equal attention. Inspect the bearing area after heavy rain and during extended dry periods. Route runoff away from the doors and cribbing, and reassess level when the surrounding grade changes.

Use the project's severe-weather plan for wind and thunderstorms. Identify who checks the visible anchors, exterior equipment and access route after an event. The included anchoring does not create a universal wind rating.

Coordinate rural-campus delivery at the gate

An Abilene, Panhandle or Milam County project can have long internal roads and more than one controlled entrance. Give the delivery plan a street address, approved gate, site contact and final placement point. A campus name alone is not enough for a driver or crane plan.

Check whether civil haul routes, security queues or shift changes block the planned arrival. Mark overhead and underground utilities, turning constraints and soft shoulders on the current logistics drawing. If a crane set is expected, the customer should coordinate the lift plan and exclusion area with its qualified team.

Normalize a Texas office quote before award

Compare written proposals against one use case. State whether the first users need Core's workstations and site-fiber-ready network scope or Command's additional workstations, badge-ready doors, WATCH, CONNECT, generator-ready inlet and meeting equipment. Do not let different build assumptions hide inside a single “site office” line.

Break out initial delivery, recurring rent, protection, selected add-ons and any later move. Identify customer scope for pad preparation, permits, temporary power, fuel, access-control integration and ongoing connectivity. Put sales or use-tax treatment in a separate line for the buyer's tax team to review.

Tie the quote to phase dates. Texas campus announcements can precede a usable office pad, while civil mobilization can precede temporary service. Procurement needs the gate-ready date, placement-ready date and power-ready date, not only the public groundbreaking.

How do I reserve a Grid for a Texas project?

Send the Texas site ZIP, quantity, target date and project details through the data center reservation path, where the confirmation provides the on-site window.

How many data centers are under construction in Texas?

Texas has 140 under construction as of March 2026, with 610 more announced, according to Aterio. Texas is projected to pass Virginia as the largest data center state.

Does JOLT deliver site offices anywhere in Texas?

Yes. For a Texas campus, DC Deploy is quoted in one business day and includes freight, set, leveling, anchoring, an electrical walkthrough and pickup.

How long does delivery to Texas take?

Delivery to Texas takes 6–8 weeks from a paid reservation.

What does a Grid cost in Texas?

For Texas projects, Grid Core is $1,950/mo and Grid Command is $2,750/mo, with a 12-month minimum. DC Deploy is quoted per campus in one business day.

Is The Grid built for Texas weather?

Yes. The Grid has an insulated 40 ft high-cube steel shell with R-19 walls, an R-30 roof, separate heat pumps and four-point anchoring.

Who is the utility and how does that affect the office?

ERCOT runs the grid; Oncor, CPS Energy, Austin Energy and AEP Texas own the wires. Temp power on a greenfield campus is two to eight weeks behind mobilization, which is what Command's generator inlet is for.

Where is the Stargate campus and can JOLT deliver there?

Stargate is in Abilene, in Taylor County, with satellite sites including Milam County. Yes, the nationwide DC Deploy package covers those Texas sites.

How do Texas summers affect a container site office?

Texas summers put cooling and insulation under sustained load, so The Grid uses separate heat pumps behind R-19 walls and an R-30 roof.