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Houston Datacenters

Greater Houston's data center market is smaller than Dallas-Fort Worth's but is one of the faster-growing secondary markets in the United States. The region hosts dozens of operational data centers, with new hyperscale and AI buildout concentrating in the western and northern suburbs and across the Houston-Galveston region.

The market draws on capacity on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid (see ERCOT Energy Sovereignty), CenterPoint Energy's transmission and distribution network across Greater Houston, land that costs less than in Dallas-Fort Worth or Austin, the infrastructure of the Houston Energy Corridor, and close ties to the region's energy and industrial companies.

Houston's demand comes mainly from enterprise customers and from energy and industrial companies. The metro serves as the enterprise and industrial data center market in Texas, complementing the hyperscale and AI campuses elsewhere in the state.

Houston Data Center and Colocation Operators

Company Location Primary Categories
365 Data CentersHouston metroEdge Colocation, Network Services
Aligned Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
CenterPoint Energy (Industrial Data)Houston (HQ)Utility Operations, Industrial Connectivity
CleanArc Data CentersHouston metroHyperscale, Sustainable Infrastructure
Cogent CommunicationsHouston metroNetwork Services, Colocation
CologixHouston metroInterconnection, Network-Dense Colocation
CoreSite (American Tower)Houston metroNetwork-Dense Colocation, Cloud Onramps
CyrusOne (Houston facilities)Houston metroWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
DataBankHouston (downtown plus suburbs)Edge Colocation, Enterprise
Digital Realty (HOU01-HOU10 portfolio)Houston metroWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
Edge CentresHouston metroEdge Computing, Distributed Infrastructure
EdgeConneXHouston metroEdge Data Centers, Network Infrastructure
Equinix (HU1)Houston (downtown)Retail Colocation, Interconnection
FlexentialHouston metroHybrid IT, High-Density Colocation
Halliburton (Industrial Compute)Houston (HQ)Industrial HPC, Energy-Sector Compute
H5 Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)Spring (HQ)Enterprise Compute, Cloud Infrastructure
Houston DataCenter (Skybox)KatyWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
Iron Mountain Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation, Compliance-Focused
Lumen TechnologiesHouston metroNetwork Infrastructure, Cloud Services
Microsoft Azure (Houston)Houston metroHyperscale Cloud Infrastructure
Neutron HoldingsHouston metroAI Infrastructure, GPU Hosting
NTT Global Data CentersHouston metroHyperscale, Wholesale Colocation
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureHouston metroHyperscale Cloud Infrastructure
QTS Realty Trust (Blackstone)Houston metroHyperscale, Wholesale Colocation
Quality Technology ServicesHouston metroWholesale Colocation
Sabey Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
Schlumberger (SLB Industrial Compute)Houston (HQ)Industrial HPC, Energy-Sector Compute
Skybox DatacentersHouston metro (Katy)Wholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
Stream Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation, Hyperscale
Switch (Vantage)Houston metroHyperscale, Wholesale Colocation
T5 Data CentersHouston metroWholesale Colocation, Build-to-Suit
Texas Medical Center (Compute Substrate)Houston (TMC)Healthcare HPC, Research Computing
TierPointHouston metroHybrid IT, Multi-Tenant Colocation
Vantage Data CentersHouston metroHyperscale Wholesale Colocation
Verizon Network OperationsHouston metroNetwork Infrastructure, Edge Compute

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