Data centers keep coming: Prime breaks ground this month on two campuses near Austin
A $400 million, 760,000-square-foot project in Maxwell adds to the wave of compute infrastructure ringing the metro as AI demand surges.
AUSTIN - Prime Data Centers is moving forward with two new facilities near Austin, with construction on the campuses - dubbed AUS01 and AUS02 - slated to begin this month in Maxwell, Texas. The project totals roughly 760,000 square feet and a planned investment of about $400 million, according to industry reporting, adding to a fast-thickening belt of compute infrastructure around the metro.
The Maxwell campuses are part of a broader regional buildout. A separate two-story facility of more than half a million square feet from developer EdgeConneX has also been moving through the Cedar Creek area, underscoring how aggressively operators are racing to add capacity in Central Texas.
The surge is being driven by the same force reshaping venture funding: demand for AI training and inference compute, which has turned electricity, land and cooling near growing metros into strategic assets. Texas's relatively permissive development environment has made the Austin region a magnet for those projects.
Why it matters
Every AI startup raising a megaround eventually needs somewhere to run its models, and the data-center boom ringing Austin is the physical backbone of that economy. The buildout brings investment and construction jobs, but it also intensifies local debates over water, power load and community impact that have already surfaced elsewhere in Texas.
Prime Data Centers is developing two new data centers, AUS01 and AUS02, totaling 760,000 sq ft in Maxwell, Texas, near Austin, with a planned investment of $400 million and construction starting in June 2026.— Data Center Dynamics report
Reported by Next in Austin. Based on reporting from Data Center Dynamics.
