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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Energy Abundance Development Corporation
- Address and locality
- Laredo · Webb County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 5,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- rumored
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000390
What the source record says
Early-stage developer announcement (Mar 21 2025) for a 5 GW behind-the-meter data center hub on ~50,000 acres near Laredo (Webb County), targeting large AI workloads with direct-to-chip liquid cooling. Phase 1 stated as 300 MW / ~1M sq ft in 2026, scaling to 5 GW / 15M+ sq ft. Highly speculative: primary source is a single promotional press release; no permit, interconnection, or construction evidence located. Coordinate anchored on Laredo. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked the operator's launch press release and one regional business-journal writeup (2026-09-10); both cover only the developer's technical vision (50,000-acre, off-grid/islanded from ERCOT) with no mention of a public hearing, Laredo city/county government reaction, or resident feedback. No community-reception record found in either source.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Energy Abundance announces Data City, Texas (press release, Mar 21 2025) · PR Newswire / Energy Abundance Development Corporation
- Up to 5GW data center with behind-the-meter hydrogen power promised for Laredo, Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- Data City Texas — project listing · Baxtel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID data-city-energy-abundance-laredo-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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