Fort Worth, like many communities across the country, is experiencing a boom of interest in data center developments.
As developers explore sites to build and operate data centers, Tarrant County residents are asking questions about the subsequent effects on resources, including water and electricity, and the area’s quality of life. Some Fort Worth City Council members are calling for a temporary pause on the developments to allow time to conduct more research as officials explore regulations.
To date, four data centers operate in Fort Worth.
Those include Meta Fort Worth Data Center, QTS and TierPoint in far north Fort Worth. The Csquare’s facility is located in far east Fort Worth, just south of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
Meta’s Fort Worth facility, one of the city’s most recent data centers, broke ground in 2015. The campus sits on 170 acres and the facility consists of 2.5 million square feet across multiple buildings, according to developer DPR Construction’s website. The facility was built in five phases; the first was operational by 2017.
Csquare’s data center was built in 1999 and is operated across 133,289 square feet, according to the company’s website. The facility can draw up to just under 52 megawatts of electricity. It contains a backup generator with a capacity of 24 megawatts.
QTS describes its facility as a “mega-scale campus.” The company requires 70 or more megawatts to power the 52-acre campus. Adjacent to the site, 12 acres of land is designated for future expansion of the campus, according to the QTS website. The second phase of development began last year and construction is now finishing, city spokesperson Kevin Neal said.
TierPoint’s facility in Hillwood’s AllianceTexas spans 208,000 square feet, according to the company’s website. Built in 2001, the facility is equipped with an electricity distribution design that can draw 12 megawatts.
The company features eight backup generators that can each draw over 2 megawatts.
In a June 2 meeting, Assistant City Manager Jesica McEachern said planned facilities are anticipated to move forward. The proposed data centers are working with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, to get their facilities connected to the power grid and secure approvals to either construct their own electrical substations or tap into an existing one, McEachern said.
CyrusOne announced plans to bring a data center to Fort Worth earlier this year. The company’s site, in collaboration with energy company Eolian, would be powered by existing high-voltage transmission infrastructure and an electrical substation, according to a news release.
ACS also has plans for a data center. The facility would sit on 107 acres zoned for heavy industrial use, according to city documents from 2025. The data center would consist of five buildings and equip a private electrical substation.
A company called WUSF 5 Rock Creek East first purchased land for a data center in 2015 just across from Tarleton State University’s Fort Worth campus. The data center would be made up of five buildings on 90 of the 120 acres purchased by developers, according to previous Fort Worth Report coverage.
The future of data centers proposed by Edged Data Centers and Black Mountain carries more uncertainty.
Energy conglomerate Black Mountain hit a standstill earlier this year after Fort Worth City Council members requested more details on the site plan for its data center, which was approved by zoning commissioners in April. The company requested to move to December items on the council’s agenda which look to rezone additional acreage for industrial use.
Edged Data Centers rescinded from an agreement with the city of Fort Worth that proposed a 50% tax break in late March after council members tabled a vote that would have approved or prevented the tax abatement from moving forward.
Two data centers are looking to be built in Fort Worth’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and would be serviced by the city’s water utility, McEachern said. However, Fort Worth loses authority on development, zoning and tax revenue on data centers outside city limits.
Both of those facilities are proposed to be located off Robertson Road, Neal said. The city could not provide specifics on the sites’ names and addresses because the projects are still in preliminary planning, Neal said.
Nicole Lopez is the environment reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact her at nicole.lopez@fortworthreport.org.
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