{"id":426275,"date":"2026-09-04T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426275\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:18:11","slug":"texas-ai-expansion-inside-lubbocks-3-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426275\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AI Expansion: Inside Lubbock&#8217;s 3 Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all this talk of data center this and data center that, I thought it would be interesting to look at where exactly these buildings are located in Lubbock County and across Texas.<\/p>\n<p>What Actually is a Data Center?<\/p>\n<p>Before we do that, I want to define what a data center actually is. I feel like we go straight to the pros and cons without knowing what they even do, besides suck up a bunch of water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/resources\/cyberglossary\/data-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fortinet<\/a> defines a data center as &#8220;a centralized physical facility that stores businesses&#8217; critical applications and data,&#8221; and that they are a location where &#8220;computing and networking equipment is used to collect, process, and store data, as well as to distribute and enable access to resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How Many Data Centers in Lubbock, Texas?<\/p>\n<p>Now we can get to looking at how many there are in Lubbock.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacentermap.com\/usa\/texas\/lubbock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to datacentermap.com<\/a>, there are currently 537 data centers across the Lone Star State in 44 different markets. How many in Lubbock? Well, that\u00a0would be the lucky number three.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kfyo.com\/lubbock-overrated-landmarks-ai\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shocking AI Reveals Lubbock&#8217;s Worst Overrated Landmarks<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/attachment-screenshot-2026-09-04-104300.png\" alt=\"datacentermap.com\" loading=\"lazy\" onload=\"this.parentNode.parentNode.classList.add('frame-loaded');\" onerror=\"this.parentNode.parentNode.classList.add('broken-image');\" fetchpriority=\"low\" width=\"1089\" height=\"673\"\/>datacentermap.comdatacentermap.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reesedatacenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reese Data Center<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacentermap.com\/usa\/texas\/lubbock\/level3-lubbock1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lumen Lubbock 1<\/a>, and a third location that&#8217;s currently in-progress.<\/p>\n<p>This third location is being built by the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terawulf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TeraWulf<\/a>\u00a0that&#8217;s partnering with the AI cloud firm <a href=\"https:\/\/fluidstack.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fluidstack<\/a>. It&#8217;s supposed to be a pretty sizeable campus that will deliver 168 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load across a 120-acre site.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who don&#8217;t speak AI, that just means that\u00a0most of the power output spread across enough land to include over 90 football fields will support computing equipment, servers, and storage drives for the company.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to reach near-completion by the end of this year, and TeraWulf is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacentermap.com\/usa\/texas\/lubbock\/terawulf-abernathy-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">slated <\/a>to make a cool $4.5 billion when it&#8217;s all said and done.<\/p>\n<p>Reese and Lumen Lubbock 1 Data Centers<\/p>\n<p>The other two data centers in Lubbock County are actually complete. The Reese Data Center in particular was a major addition to the county. Reese has been integrated within Lubbock County for a while now, and their relationship with local leaders is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when construction for Reese\u00a0National Security Complex\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/05\/20\/texas-tech-breaks-ground-reese-national-security-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broke ground earlier this year<\/a>, Texas Tech University President Dr. Lawrence Schovanec and Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows were key voices in support of how the development\u00a0will benefit the city and the university.<\/p>\n<p>The Reese Data Center provides secure, efficient environments for servers and network equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Lumen Lubbock 1, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1502+Avenue+N,+Lubbock,+TX+79401\/@33.5811406,-101.8522373,19z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x86fe6d2cdaf9e16b:0xaf1836634ef5b5c6!8m2!3d33.5810949!4d-101.8516391!16s%2Fg%2F11h2p891dz?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1502 Avenue N<\/a>, takes up about 5,000 square feet of property. It needs so much space to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenters.com\/lumen-lubbock-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">serve customers across the southwestern U.S.<\/a> in providing digital infrastructure, network connectivity, and secure data management.<\/p>\n<p>You can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenters.com\/lumen-lubbock-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lumen&#8217;s\u00a0webpage\u00a0on datacenters.com<\/a> to learn more about Lumen and their unique data center in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think? Are data centers going to continue to sprout up more often as we begin the AI era? I suppose that only makes sense, but I don&#8217;t see every Texan being on board for long.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Reasons You&#8217;re Definitely Living in Lubbock, TX, According to ChatGPT<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what AI has to say about Lubbock? No? Well here&#8217;s you answer anyway!<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Nick<\/p>\n<p>Highest-Rated Tex-Mex Restaurants in Lubbock by Diners<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/texas\/lubbock\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the highest-rated Tex-Mex restaurants in Lubbock using data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/stories\/texas\/lubbock\/highest-rated-tex-mex-restaurants-lubbock-diners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highest-Rated Comfort Food Restaurants in Lubbock by Diners<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/texas\/lubbock\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the highest-rated comfort food restaurants in Lubbock using data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/stories\/texas\/lubbock\/highest-rated-comfort-food-restaurants-lubbock-diners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all this talk of data center this and data center that, I thought it would be interesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,2630],"class_list":["post-426275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}