Texas data center data for reporters and researchers

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• Where the sources come from. Records are written by hand from company releases and investor pages, city and state pages, the Governor's and Attorney General's releases, statute text and named news outlets. Each record lists its sources with the date each was published, or the date we opened an undated page. A record with one source says so ("One source only").
• "Not yet public" means we looked and did not find it. On the page, an item that is missing reads "Not yet public". It means we searched the company releases, government pages and news we check and did not find it. It does not mean the thing does not exist or was never filed. A water survey answer, for example, may exist and just not be searchable by the public. In the CSV and GeoJSON downloads, the same item reads "Not found in public sources as of" and a date.
• Unverified claims are left out. A claim we could not confirm from a source we opened is not in the dataset, and the hub does not display it anywhere.
• "Last checked" and "Updated" are different. "Last checked" is on every record: the day someone at 806 Connect last opened the sources and confirmed the values. "Updated" is the dated log at the bottom of the hub that lists what changed. A record can be checked recently and not need to change.
• Counties versus facilities. Some lists on the hub are about counties, not facilities. The Texas Attorney General's September 24, 2026 announcement named 18 counties where data center developments are under initial investigation. It did not name facilities or companies, and it said the investigation reaches all data center developments in the state. A county being on that list does not mean a facility there broke a rule.
• Map layers. Map points that come from OpenStreetMap contributors are shown as reported by those contributors. They are unofficial and incomplete. Corrections to those points are made on OpenStreetMap, not here.

The labels you will see

Not yet public

We looked in public sources and did not find it. It may exist.

Last checked

The date we last opened the sources behind a record and confirmed it.

Updated

A dated line in the hub's log each time the data changes.

One source only

Only one cited source backs the record.

Said by LEDA President John Osborne, describing Corva's plans, July 30, 2026

A figure a named party said on that date. It is not a permit or a measurement.

Update cadence

Open files, updated with the page. Free to share and print with credit to 806 Connect (CC BY 4.0).

• Projects (CSV)texas-data-centers.csv
• Stated figures (CSV)texas-data-center-figures.csv
• Locations (GeoJSON)texas-data-centers.geojson
• 10 questions checklist (PDF, English)806-connect-10-questions-data-center-project-en.pdf
• 10 questions checklist (PDF, Spanish)806-connect-10-preguntas-proyecto-centro-de-datos-es.pdf

Fields in the projects file

• id
• name
• company
• status
• county
• city
• latitude
• longitude
• location_precision
• single_source
• last_checked
• stated_power
• stated_water
• cooling
• water_source
• contract_or_abatement
• state_permits
• twdb_survey_response
• summary
• status_note
• source_urls
• source_publishers
• source_dates

Fields in the figures file

• record_id
• kind
• value
• unit
• stated_by
• stated_on
• source_url

Coordinates are approximate; location_precision says whether a pin is near a site, at a town, or near the middle of a county. A county or town marker is not the location of a facility.

Free to share and print with credit to 806 Connect (CC BY 4.0).

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• OpenStreetMap-derived layers. These are © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. If you use or redistribute them, credit OpenStreetMap contributors and keep the data under the ODbL. Share-alike applies to adapted databases.
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CC BY 4.0 · ODbL 1.0 · OpenStreetMap

Attribution line to copy

Data: 806 Connect (806connect.com), CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Use the date you accessed the page, because records change.

Short form (for a story or caption)

Source: 806 Connect, "Texas Data Center Water Watch," updated October 2, 2026, accessed (add the date you opened it). https://806connect.com/data-centers

Full citation (for a paper or report)

806 Connect. (2026). Texas Data Center Water Watch. Updated October 2, 2026. Retrieved (add the date you opened it), from https://806connect.com/data-centers

To cite a single fact, cite the original source linked next to that fact, and mention 806 Connect as where you found it. That is better practice than citing the hub alone.

Corrections are welcome and we fix verified errors in the open.

1. Open the report form on the corrections page.
2. Include the page or record URL, the exact text or value you believe is wrong, what you think is right, and a link to a public source that shows it. A document you can link to is the fastest route.
3. We check the source. If it holds up, we fix the record and add a dated line to the hub's "Updated" log. If it does not hold up, we say so.

If your correction is about a point on the OpenStreetMap layer, please edit OpenStreetMap directly (openstreetmap.org); we cannot edit it from here.

Contact

Questions about the dataset, data access, interviews or anything not covered here: use the contact page, choose "Other," and start your message with "Texas data centers" so it reaches the right person. We do not promise a reply time. Open the contact page

• County check tool: a free embed that tells a visitor whether a county is on the Attorney General's investigation list. Get the widget
• Records request builder.

• We do not take a position for or against any project.
• We do not publish unsourced claims or figures given to us privately, unless they can be tied to a public document.
• We do not have inside access to agencies, owners or developers. Everything on the hub is from public sources.
• We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice.

Last checked: October 2, 2026