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Austin Data Centers

The Austin metro has grown into one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the United States, with hyperscale, AI and colocation campuses spread from Williamson County south to Hays, Caldwell and Bastrop counties.

Williamson County, on the east side of the metro, holds the densest concentration because of the Samsung Oncor Effect: Samsung's leading-edge semiconductor campus in Taylor led Oncor, the electric utility serving the area, to build new transmission across eastern Williamson County. That transmission opened the county to hyperscale data center operators that need reliable power at the scale of hundreds of megawatts.

Major buildouts on this corridor include Meta's Temple campus in neighboring Bell County, the Skybox/Prologis Hutto Megasite, and projects along the Georgetown, Hutto and Taylor corridor.

Austin's data center growth follows its anchor companies. The Samsung transmission buildout, Tesla's Giga Texas campus with its captive Cortex AI training clusters, and the wider Austin AI-industrial buildout all draw operators to the metro. Dallas-Fort Worth, by contrast, is the long-established colocation and hyperscale market, and Houston's demand comes mainly from enterprise and industrial customers.

Austin Data Center and Colocation Operators

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