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Houston Datacenters

Greater Houston's data center market is structurally smaller than DFW's 248-facility / 71-operator concentration but represents one of the most rapidly-scaling US secondary data center markets through 2026-2030. The metroplex hosts approximately 60-80 operational data center facilities across the Greater Houston substrate, with continued hyperscale and AI-focused buildout concentrating in the western Houston suburbs, the northern Houston suburbs, and the broader Houston-Galveston region. The market's specific structural advantages combine continued ERCOT capacity availability (covered at ERCOT Energy Sovereignty), CenterPoint Energy's transmission and distribution substrate serving 2.7 million metered customers across the Greater Houston region, abundant land at substantially lower cost basis than DFW or Austin metros, broader Houston Energy Corridor infrastructure substrate, plus continued integration with Houston's broader industrial and energy substrate.

Houston's specific position within the broader Texas data center substrate is structurally distinctive precisely because of the metro's enterprise customer concentration plus continued energy-and-industrial-customer integration. Houston positions itself as the structurally distinctive enterprise-and-industrial data center substrate complementing the hyperscale and AI-focused concentrations elsewhere in Texas.

Houston Data Center and Colocation Operators

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