Four Texas data center filings schedule $1.2bn of construction into 2029

The engineer costing out AI capacity around Dallas for 2027 wants two numbers from any project: megawatts and a completion date. The filings, reported by DataCenterDynamics, give the dates in four cases out of five ^[1]. Digital Realty's DFW45 in Garland runs June 2026 to January 2029, 31 months and the longest window filed ^[3][10]. At the other end, CoreSite needs 20 months for DA1 in Irving, April 2027 to December 2028 ^[4][10]. Colovore has December 2026 to December 2028 in Hutto ^[7]. DataBank's DFW15 in Red Oak finishes last, in August 2029, from a February 2027 start ^[5].

Only two of the filings put dollars and megawatts in the same document. Digital Realty's $300 million buys 80MW, or $3.75 million per MW ^[2][3][2]. Colovore's $280 million buys 40MW, or $7 million per MW ^[7][8][3]. Per square foot that is $446 against $1,453 ^[4]. Both companies size their capacity in 8MW blocks, ten suites at Garland and five halls in Hutto ^[3][8]. The four projects together come to $1.205 billion and 1,538,375 sq ft ^[1][9]. The report does not include megawatt figures for DA1 or DFW15 ^[4][5].

What Colovore is selling in Hutto is density. Its website says the 40MW AUS01 will be able to offer more than 600kW per rack across five 8MW data halls ^[8]. The company launched in 2013 with liquid-cooled racks capable of up to 35kW, so the Austin target is roughly 17 times its own starting point ^[9][6]. A tenant that cannot draw 600kW in a rack pays $1,453 a square foot for room it will not fill ^[4].

The filings are not new projects. Digital Realty announced a Garland campus on W Campbell Road in 2017 and an expansion in 2018, and it already runs more than a dozen data centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ^[12][13]. DataBank announced its Red Oak campus in September 2024, and DFW15 breaks ground about 29 months after that ^[6][7]. Colovore's Hutto plan surfaced in late 2024, when it filed Project Raptor with the Hutto city council, and construction starts two years later ^[10][8]. CoreSite's Irving site came up in planning commission meetings in February, where the eventual plan was described as three two-story buildings across some 37 acres ^[11].

So the sorting question on a campus announcement is whether a licensing filing exists yet, and whether that filing pairs a dollar figure with a megawatt figure. Among these five operators, four clear the first and two clear the second ^[11]. DataBank's first Red Oak phase, four buildings on Batchler Road, is already under construction ^[6].