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Recent Texas data center news

• Feb 18, 2026

  Could Texas Overtake Northern Virginia as the Data Center Capital?

  JLL’s latest market analysis reports a structural expansion of the North American data center industry driven by hyperscale and AI demand, with vacancy rates at 1% for the second consecutive year.

  • Key findings & figures: JLL reports 39 GW active capacity and a 35 GW pipeline across North America, with vacancy at 1%; nearly two-thirds of new capacity is being built outside traditional hubs. Texas has 6.5 GW under construction and could overtake Northern Virginia by 2030; there are >10 developments exceeding 1 GW, rents rose 9% in 2025 (and 60% since 2020), most new leases include annual escalations ≥3%, and tenants are targeting deliveries in 2027 or later.
  • Power, timelines & market shifts: Hyperscalers (the top five cloud providers) plan $710 billion in 2026 capex supporting ~35 GW global capacity; OpenAI and Anthropic account for ~10 GW of announced projects. The report highlights grid interconnection timelines of 4+ years, utilities-delivered capacity expected late 2028–2029, and developers pursuing behind-the-meter generation, microgrids, phased deployments, and early collaboration with utilities and governments to accelerate delivery.
• Feb 18, 2026

  Enchanted Rock Signs Lease at Prologis’ Legacy Point Business Park in Cypress, Texas

  Prologis has completed a full-building lease with Enchanted Rock for a 407,302-square-foot facility at Legacy Point in Cypress, Texas.

  • Main announcement: Prologis completed a full-building lease with Enchanted Rock for a 407,302-square-foot, Class A facility at Legacy Point (18501 Mound Road, Cypress, Texas); the building is the first delivery within the 350-acre master-planned park expected to support more than 5 million square feet of industrial development and is estimated to bring over 2,000 jobs at full build out. The site will serve as Enchanted Rock’s dedicated assembly, production, and testing hub for natural gas generators and includes a solar-ready roof and cross-dock layout with 36-foot clear heights.

  • Background and details: The expansion is intended to expand production capacity to meet demand from utilities, retailers, and data centers, strengthen supply chain resilience and enable Enchanted Rock’s end-to-end business model (project origination, EPC, permitting, fuel strategy, operations & maintenance, energy market participation, and 24/7 monitoring via its Microgrid Control Center). Colliers’ Robert L. Alinger and Wes Williams represented Prologis in the transaction. Prologis reports Texas warehouse throughput of $273.2 billion in 2024, with associated $31.8 billion GDP impact and $5.2 billion in tax revenues.

• Feb 18, 2026

  Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia

  Microsoft Research has announced a glass-based data-storage system that remains readable for at least 10,000 years.

  • Main announcement: Microsoft Research (Project Silica team) demonstrated a borosilicate-glass archival storage system that stores 4.8 terabytes on a 12-cm wide, 2-mm thick square and is predicted to remain readable for ≥10,000 years at 290 ºC and potentially tens to hundreds of times longer at room temperature. The system writes data by using femtosecond, high-energy laser pulses to create nanoscale deformations and reads data with microscopy.
  • Background and implementation details: The work is presented as a complete, deployable archival system (paper published in Nature, 18 February 2026). It uses cheaper borosilicate glass (rather than fused silica), builds on prior optoelectronics research (including Guinness World Record work on fused silica), and emphasizes faster writing and more reliable decoding compared with earlier Project Silica iterations. No pricing, commercial deployment schedule, or purchase agreements are specified in the article.
• Feb 17, 2026

  Enchanted Rock Appoints Niki Herr as Chief Marketing Officer

  Enchanted Rock has announced that Niki Herr has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer.

  • Herr will serve as Chief Marketing Officer, leading marketing, brand, and communications to implement a unified strategy that supports growth across data centers, critical infrastructure, and commercial & industrial sectors; she will be responsible for advancing brand and market positioning, enhancing customer and partner engagement, and building integrated capabilities to support the company’s expanding footprint.
  • Background and product context: Herr has held senior roles at Interpublic Group agencies, Gensler, and Stem, Inc.; Enchanted Rock provides onsite power and microgrid solutions delivering flexible capacity, primary generation, and resilient backup for data centers, healthcare systems, utilities, manufacturers, and government customers. No financial amounts or implementation timelines were provided in the announcement.
• Feb 17, 2026

  Designing Data Centers for the Communities and Natural Environments Where We Operate

  Oracle commits to community-centered design and environmental protections for its AI data center projects.

  • Main announcement/action: Oracle will design and build AI data centers with community and environmental protections including closed-loop, non-evaporative cooling systems, commitments to preserve and enhance on-site land, reduced light and noise impacts, and a financial commitment of $50 million to modernize Doña Ana County’s water system. Oracle also states it will fund any electrical infrastructure upgrades required to service its campuses (not ratepayers), and that daily potable water use at its sites will be similar to a typical office building.

  • Details and site-specific facts:

    • Port Washington, Wisconsin: 672-acre site; 172 acres to be preserved/enhanced; planting more than 2,000 native trees; supporting the Valley Creek Corridor Revitalization Project to restore/protect waterways.
    • Saline Township, Michigan:Three-quarters of the site to remain farmland, wetlands, and open space; buildings sit below road level; sensor-controlled, downward-facing lighting; site noise ~55 decibels at the property line; new stormwater systems will reduce runoff into the Saline River to below current levels.
    • Doña Ana County, New Mexico: closed-loop cooling initial fill will use non-potable water drawn from existing commercial water rights (not community drinking water); $50 million committed to modernize the county water system.
    • Abilene, Texas: data center will utilize excess, low-cost wind energy from the local grid to help stabilize utilization.
• Feb 17, 2026

  McLaren Racing Turns Race Data into an Edge with Dell Technologies Storage

  McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team has implemented a unified Dell storage platform (Dell PowerStore and PowerScale, delivered via Dell AI Factory and consumed through Dell APEX) to process ~1.5 TB of race-weekend data and support live operations, simulation and AI/analytics.

  • Implementation details: McLaren uses Dell PowerStore for latency-sensitive, performance-critical workloads and Dell PowerScale for high-speed access to large unstructured datasets (telemetry archives, high-resolution video, historical datasets); the platform is consumed on demand via Dell APEX Infrastructure Services and paired with Dell PowerEdge servers. Data volume: ~1.5 terabytes per race weekend.
  • Context and announcement type: This is an announcement describing McLaren’s use of Dell’s AI-ready storage foundation and the extended relationship with Dell; the article ties the deployment to the Dell AI Factory offering and highlights continuous online access to historical telemetry rather than cold archive storage.
• Feb 16, 2026

  Vertiv’s AI Infrastructure Surge: Record Orders, Liquid Cooling Expansion, and Grid-Scale Power Reflect Data Center Growth

  Vertiv reported Q4 2025 results, framed AI-driven demand as sustainable, and announced a permanent disclosure change to stop reporting quarterly orders and backlog.

  • Main announcement: Vertiv reported Q4 2025 net sales of $2.88 billion, organic orders up ~252% y/y, backlog $15 billion, operating cash flow $1.005 billion, and declared it will stop reporting quarterly orders, orders forecasts, and backlog figures (annual backlog and sales will continue in regulatory filings). The company also provided 2026 guidance including net sales $13.25–$13.75 billion and adjusted free cash flow $2.1–$2.3 billion and disclosed it had deployed roughly $1 billion toward strategic acquisitions (including the PurgeRite acquisition completed in December for ~ $1.0 billion).
  • Additional details / context: Vertiv emphasized system-level procurement (MegaMod HDX, OneCore, SmartRun), expanded lifecycle services (Vertiv Next Predict) and liquid-cooling lifecycle capability via the PurgeRite acquisition; it introduced EnergyCore Grid BESS (1 MW–200+ MW modular scope) to address interconnection constraints and signaled capital expenditures rising to 3–4% of sales in 2026 to expand manufacturing and technology capacity. Regional performance was uneven: Americas strong, APAC down (China weakness), EMEA down but expected to recover H2 2026.
• Feb 13, 2026

  Breaking the Multiphysics Simulation Bottleneck

  Dell announces that Dell Pro Max workstations with NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs and NVIDIA server/rack platforms now enable full‑fidelity multiphysics simulations from the desktop to rack-scale.

  • Main announcement: Dell promotes that its Dell Pro Max Tower T2 (with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) and Dell PowerEdge servers (XE9680 with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs; XE8712 rack systems with NVIDIA GB200 NVL4) let engineers run full‑fidelity multiphysics without partitioning models. Key technical details: GH200 Superchip offers 576GB coherent memory via NVLink-C2C at 900GB/s; Dell PowerEdge XE9680 offers 8 × H200 GPUs with 141GB HBM3e per GPU (over 1.1TB total); XE8712 supports up to 144 B200 GPUs per rack.
  • Background and evidence: The article cites vendor results and ISV integration: Ansys reported a 2.4-billion-cell automotive aero simulation that ran on 320 GH200 GPUs in 6 hours versus 4 weeks on a 2,048-core CPU cluster; COMSOL Multiphysics 6.4 with cuDSS reports 5x or greater speedups. CAE vendors named include Ansys, Siemens, COMSOL, and Altair; the piece is promotional/announcing product capability and vendor integrations, not a primary research paper or independent benchmark.
• Feb 13, 2026

  The 50 States of Power Decarbonization: States and Utilities Navigate Large Load Customer Demand in 2025

  The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) released its 2025 Annual Review and Q4 2025 edition of the 50 States of Power Decarbonization report.

  • Report release & headline findings: The NCCETC released the 2025 annual review and Q4 2025 quarterly report, finding 49 states plus Puerto Rico took a total of 667 actions on electric power decarbonization and resource planning in 2025; 37 states took 104 actions related to large load customers. The report highlights top trends including new large-load tariffs, increased natural gas capacity additions, state-led procurement of energy storage, and consideration of advanced nuclear.
  • Background & concrete details: The release documents integrated resource plan filings showing planned capacity additions of 144,405 MW solar, 125,016 MW natural gas, 58,581 MW storage, 58,381 MW wind, and 56,475 MW planned coal retirements in 2025; it notes 400 actions tracked in Q4 2025 plus more than 270 introduced bills, and calls out surging data center development driving large-load policy responses.
• Feb 12, 2026

  Empowering Telecom Core Networks Through Collaboration and Innovation

  Dell and Samsung have announced successful validation of Samsung’s mobile core on the Dell PowerEdge R7625 server powered by AMD EPYC processors.

  • Main announcement: Dell and Samsung completed validation testing of Samsung’s mobile core running on the Dell PowerEdge R7625 (2U rackmount) using AMD EPYC processors (up to 128 cores per CPU), demonstrating performance, scalability, and reliability for disaggregated telecom core deployments.
  • Background and details: The validation emphasizes cache-sensitive performance using 4th Gen AMD EPYC with 3D V-Cache™, highlights readiness for open, disaggregated core infrastructures, and includes vendor statements from Boyoung Yoon (Samsung) and Derek Dicker (AMD) confirming platform-level interoperability and operator confidence. No monetary figures or implementation timelines were provided.