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AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources proposed a noncompetitive sale of over 31 square miles of state land north of Houston to AIDEA for a multi use industrial and energy development district that could include scalable data centers, a logistics hub, and utility corridors. It is reported, as reported September 11, 2026.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 4 sources, 0 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
20,000 acres
third party estimate [3]
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Reported by others: 300,000 gallons a day (Yahoo). Their figure, not the record's.
Who leads it
Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA)
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) as stated by the source October 7, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land 20,000 acres third party estimate [3] yahoo.com October 7, 2026
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

How much water it would use, also reported: 300,000 gallons a day, 2026 (Yahoo: Alaska Youth for Environmental Action cited that a midsize data center can require around 300,000 gallons of water per day and substantial electricity.) .

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What happened

  1. · Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    AIDEA plans to build roads manufacturing pads and a data center on the land [1]

The full AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston) timeline, in order

The site

Where in Matanuska-Susitna County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.

  • This record: Proposed, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 4 other published records in Alaska
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Houston, Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska
How exactly it is located
County level, the county seat
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Water a day

1 figure, 1 source
Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

300,000 gallons a dayReported

Yahoo, Sep 15, 2026

Show each source's words
  • 300,000 gallons a day, Yahoo: Alaska Youth for Environmental Action cited that a midsize data center can require around 300,000 gallons of water per day and substantial electricity.

Keep going

The county Matanuska-Susitna County 2 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Alaska Every Alaska project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

7 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)?

The record has one measure of its size: 20,000 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)?

Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

Who will use AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

How much power and water does AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston) say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston) stand today?

It is reported, as reported September 11, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 11, 2026: AIDEA plans to build roads manufacturing pads and a data center on the land [1].

What has Houston or Matanuska-Susitna County decided about it?

No decision by Houston or Matanuska-Susitna County about data centers is on the record. The Matanuska-Susitna County page and the Alaska scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.

What is still unknown about AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Reporting

  1. Alaska teens oppose 20,000 acre industrial park proposal - Alaska Beacon, Alaska Beacon, September 11, 2026, local outlet
  2. Alaska’s economic development agency plans a Mat-Su industrial park, with data centers - Alaska Beacon, Alaska Beacon, July 16, 2026, local outlet
  3. Alaska teens push back on 20,000 acre Houston land transfer for industrial park, data center - Yahoo, Yahoo, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  4. New state proposal could bring data centers to the Mat-Su as part of industrial park - Alaska's News Source, Alaska's News Source, July 16, 2026, local outlet

4 sources on file.

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Data Center Record, "AIDEA Mat-Su Industrial Park (Houston)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/aidea-mat-su-industrial-park-houston-ak, last verified October 7, 2026.

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Slug
aidea-mat-su-industrial-park-houston-ak
Status value
rumored
Stage
Proposed
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/ak/matanuska-susitna-county/houston
Coordinates
61.60194, -149.11722
Location precision
county
Location source
County seat (Palmer), Wikidata, placed at county level
Coordinate source
wikidata county seat
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 16, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
third_party_estimate
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-10-07