Google To Expand Data Center Campus South Of Dallas
One of the globe's biggest technology companies plans to spend close to $1B to expand its existing data center campus in a southern Dallas-Fort Worth suburb.
Google will spend $880M to construct a one-story data center at its existing campus in Midlothian. Work on the 288K SF project on Railport Parkway is expected to start next month and wrap up in the first quarter of 2027, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Google arrived in Midlothian, located about 25 miles south of Dallas, in 2018 with a $600M investment for its 375-acre data center campus. The global technology company later added 165 acres in Ellis County for future development, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The Midlothian project was developed through the Google-associated company Sharka LLC, which is also listed as the owner for the expansion in the new state filing.
Midlothian Mayor Justin Coffman said Sharka has been a great partner for the city.
“They have exceeded our expectations in regards to cross-sector community impact, water conservation and growth rate,” he said in a statement. “They have proven to be an economic stimulant and are providing primary job opportunities.”
Google did not immediately return a request for comment on the project.
The Midlothian expansion is part of a $40B Texas investment that Google announced in November. In addition to the DFW project, the global technology company plans to develop three new data centers in Armstrong and Haskell counties and expand its campus in Red Oak.
This Texas investment underscores Google's accelerated build-out of its data centers and the fast-paced growth of the state’s data center market.
Two of the new data centers will be built in rural Haskell County, which is midway between Fort Worth and Lubbock. It’s also just north of the flagship campus for the Stargate data center backed by Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank in Abilene.
Another huge data center is planned for rural Shackelford County. Vantage Data Centers stated in August it would spend more than $25B to develop a 1.4-gigawatt data center campus there. Vantage’s Frontier campus, as it will be known, will consist of 10 data centers totaling 3.7M SF on 1,200 acres.
Texas has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions for data center development largely because of the relative ease with which tech giants and other data center firms can online for large-scale campuses, either behind the meter or through partnerships with utilities. Such projects include the gas-powered Stargate as well as a proposed 11 GW complex by startup Fermi America that plans to use nuclear energy.
Texas is home to 15% of all U.S. data center capacity, second only to Northern Virginia, according to DC Byte. Texas has more capacity planned or under construction than any other state, with as much as 16 GW slated to come online by 2030.
