Synjyn Dodd, Hoar Construction
Data centers have tied up large swaths of steel and concrete supply
East Houston data center (Chron)
East Houston residents previously fought a data center project that has returned with a new proposal. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Not disclosed
- 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Not disclosed | |||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
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.
- Who is behind itA land record, a zoning application or a company's own announcement.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
2 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the draft of a reference figures row
The record could not read this figure's source: the page answered HTTP 403, so no text of it reached the classifier, which scored card 11769 from the headline alone, and the number came from the headline; published by the bulk approve of 2026-09-25. A reference figure needs a source the record read: returned to draft, off every page, until a readable source that states it is cited (docs/batch-unread-figures-0929.md). The old and new text.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
MD Anderson Cancer Center delayed two projects planned for next five years due to data center boom impacts
Paul Bettencourt, state senator, said counties do not have the legal authority to ban data center construction
Every statement about data centers in Texas, by speaker
15 more statements on this page
Karen Mooney, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Data center development in Texas is straining demand for construction materials and equipment
Chris Tomlinson, journalist
Counties asked Attorney General Ken Paxton what power they retained, and he did not answer six months later
Chris Tomlinson, journalist
Abbott and Republican lawmakers passed multiple laws providing property tax cuts to data centers
Chris Tomlinson, journalist
Governor Greg Abbott invited data center companies to Texas and promised low taxes, regulations, cheap electricity and water
Meta spokesperson
Meta pledged to pay for own infrastructure and launched fund for water and energy infrastructure investment
OpenAI pledged to pay for own infrastructure, support new electricity sources and minimize water usage
Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priorities Committee member and Bexar County judge candidate
Patrick Von Dohlen said at least a quarter of 160 plus testimony speakers were concerned about AI data centers
Republican Party of Texas proposes prohibiting all tax payer funded incentives, property tax abatements, corporate welfare, or economic development packages for data centers
Republican Party of Texas proposes requiring major data centers to secure their own independent power generation and non potable water sources
Republican Party of Texas convention delegate
Rolando Garcia said data centers use massive amounts of water and electricity, and Texas is already having problems with its electrical grid and water infrastructure
Republican Party of Texas proposes granting cities and counties final authority over zoning, land development, and comprehensive planning decisions for data centers
Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priorities Committee named regulating AI as the 15th of its top 15 priorities for the 2027 Legislature
Republican Party of Texas proposes mandating that data center construction companies pay full impact fees to compensate communities
State Senator (R-Houston), chair of Senate Local Government Committee
Paul Bettencourt said he is open to Texas' 254 counties having more input on data centers but stressed critical importance to state and country economic development
The site
Where in Harris County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 53 other published records in Texas
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, Harris County, Texas
- 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.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building East Houston data center (Chron)?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names the developer. The sources read for this record are listed under Sources.
How much power and water does East Houston data center (Chron) say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does East Houston data center (Chron) stand today?
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It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.
What has Houston or Harris County decided about it?
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No decision by Houston or Harris County about data centers is on the record. The Harris County page and the Texas scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- Gov. Greg Abbott touts tech company cooperation, following Trump criticism of data center policy - Houston Public Media, Houston Public Media, August 10, 2026, local outlet
- East Houston residents fought a data center. Now it's back - Chron, Chron, September 1, 2026, local outlet
2 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "East Houston data center (Chron)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/east-houston-data-center-chron-tx, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "East Houston data center (Chron)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/east-houston-data-center-chron-tx. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- east-houston-data-center-chron-tx
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/tx/harris-county/houston
- Coordinates
- 29.76278, -95.38306
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Houston), 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
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17