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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- CloudBurst Data Centers
- Address and locality
- San Marcos · Hays County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000254
What the source record says
706-acre campus spanning Hays and Guadalupe counties; coordinates use San Marcos city area as centroid. Developed with Evolve Holdings as construction manager. 10-12 hyperscale buildings totaling ~3 million sq ft planned. Tenant not publicly confirmed. Investment total not confirmed in available sources; $14.5B figure removed as unsupported. Guadalupe County commissioners rejected a $500M abatement 3-2 on Feb 24, 2026, then approved a revised abatement on April 21, 2026; county records peg total campus investment at $14.5B (Hays County, home to 77.5 of the 220 abated acres, took no abatement action).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-06 · reported proposed
CloudBurst announces GigaCenter concept for Central Texas between Austin and San Antonio.
- 2025-11 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking November 5, 2025 following development approvals and incentive agreements. First 50 MW phase targeted Q4 2026.
Sources and attribution
- CloudBurst breaks ground on gigawatt-scale data center campus in Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- CloudBurst and Evolve break ground on 1.2 GW flagship AI campus in Central Texas · eVOLVE Inc.
- Cloudburst secures incentives for $14B central-Texas data center · The Real Deal
- Guadalupe County commissioners vote down $500M tax cut for proposed data center · Community Impact
- 706-acre data center approved for development outside San Antonio, Texas (Internet Archive snapshot of DCD) · Data Center Dynamics (via Internet Archive)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cloudburst-san-marcos-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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