{"id":467910,"date":"2026-10-16T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:14:07","slug":"beacon-point-ai-data-center-construction-begins-in-nueces-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467910\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Point AI Data Center Construction Begins in Nueces County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A highly watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/20\/data-center-texas-nueces-county-will-double-under-new-lease\/90745813007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (AI data center project in Nueces County)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI data center project in Nueces County<\/a> recently started construction between Robstown and Calallen, in South Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Construction for the 525-acre Beacon Point Data Center campus will cost almost $399 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Project\/TABS2027000611\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (according to records)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to records<\/a> from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hut8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (Hut 8)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hut 8<\/a>, a Florida-based company, is behind the development of the Beacon Point campus in Calallen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The estimated completion date for the construction is set for Nov. 5, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corp. announced in May that Hut 8 had planned to develop a $9.8 billion multi-phase, multi-tenant AI data center.\u00a0An undisclosed company has signed two lease agreements for the campus, for a total contract amount of $19.6 billion, as of July.<\/p>\n<p>More on this story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/construction-begins-nearly-400-million-094024000.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (AOL)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AOL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A highly watched AI data center project in Nueces County recently started construction between Robstown and Calallen, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[41644,159206,1494,155,157,156,3723,5304,40284,117064],"class_list":["post-467910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-ai-infrastructure","tag-aol","tag-construction","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-current-industry-top-news","tag-data-centers","tag-engineering-procurement-construction","tag-hut-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467910","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=467910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}