CyrusOne plans to build a new data center in Whitney, Texas, adding to a wave of large-scale computing projects across the state that has raised questions about future electricity demand on the Texas grid.
A filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation shows CyrusOne intends to construct a 93,319‑square‑foot, single-story data center at the intersection of FM 56 and County Road 3610A in Whitney, a Bosque County community about 35 miles north of Waco. The filing, submitted Dec. 5, lists an anticipated construction start date of February 2026 and a projected completion date of April 30, 2027.
CyrusOne, a data center developer and operator that supports cloud and AI workloads, currently runs facilities in nine states: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Washington. In Texas, the company operates eight data centers, including three in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Its DFW3–5 complex in Allen, a northern suburb of Dallas, spans about 976,000 square feet and has a power capacity of 50 megawatts. By comparison, the proposed Whitney site would be the smallest CyrusOne facility in Texas by square footage. The company estimates the Whitney project cost at roughly $430 million, according to the state filing.
The new proposal comes as Texas sees rapid growth in energy‑intensive data center development. In recent months, major technology companies and other operators have announced billions of dollars in new projects, prompting state regulators, grid officials and local communities to assess how rising data center load could affect electricity supply and transmission infrastructure.
Less than a month before the CyrusOne filing, Google announced plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers. One facility is planned in Armstrong County in the Texas Panhandle, while two others are slated for Haskell County near Abilene. Google already operates a cloud region in Dallas and a data campus in Midlothian, southwest of Dallas–Fort Worth.
Neither CyrusOne nor state regulators have publicly detailed the expected power capacity or grid interconnection plans for the Whitney project. The filing with the Department of Licensing and Regulation focuses on construction size, timeline and cost, which are required for certain commercial projects in Texas.
The Whitney development would expand CyrusOne’s footprint beyond the state’s major urban areas into a smaller Central Texas community, aligning with an industry trend of siting new data centers near existing transmission lines, substations or available land while remaining within reach of major fiber and highway corridors.
State and local officials are expected to review the project as it moves through design and permitting ahead of the planned 2026 start date.
