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The Austin corridor is becoming Texas' data center magnet
AIDev Okonkwo · May 12

The Austin corridor is becoming Texas' data center magnet

A $1.44 billion EdgeConneX campus in Bastrop County is one of several AI compute projects clustering around Austin and San Antonio.

Google commits $40 billion to three new AI data center hubs in Texas
AIDev Okonkwo · Apr 15

Google commits $40 billion to three new AI data center hubs in Texas

The investment, running through 2027, deepens Big Tech's concentration of compute in the state.

Meta sixfolds its El Paso AI data center bet to $10 billion
AIDev Okonkwo · Mar 26

Meta sixfolds its El Paso AI data center bet to $10 billion

The campus is targeting 1 gigawatt of capacity by 2028 as hyperscalers pour capital into Texas.

NationalJordan Vance · Mar 2

Stargate expands with five new sites, anchoring more capacity in Texas

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank pushed the data-center venture toward 7 gigawatts and more than $400 billion in planned investment.

AIDev Okonkwo · Feb 5

Crusoe and partners pour $15 billion into the Abilene Stargate site

The wind-powered campus is being built to host 400,000 Nvidia GPUs as Stargate scales in West Texas.

Oracle to spend $40B on Nvidia chips to power OpenAI's Texas megacenter
AIDev Okonkwo · Jan 30

Oracle to spend $40B on Nvidia chips to power OpenAI's Texas megacenter

The cloud provider will buy roughly 400,000 GB200 GPUs for the Abilene data center under a 15-year deal.

NationalJordan Vance · Jan 9

xAI raises $20B and pushes Colossus toward 2 gigawatts in Memphis

Musk's AI company closed its Series E above target and bought a third Memphis building to expand the world's largest single-site training cluster.

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