Texas · Updated Oct 16, 2026
Data center electrician jobs in Texas
We track 30 data center and power megaprojects in Texas: 21 under construction, 8 planned. They're in Lockhart, TX, Lufkin, TX, Pecos, TX, Fort Stockton, TX, Dickens, TX, Albany, TX, Sweetwater, TX, Abilene, TX and 19 more places.
Biggest announced construction crews: Project Star energy campus (~8,400), Pecos datacenter campus (6,000), Google AI campus (Armstrong County) (5,500+ on site daily), Stargate I / Lancium Clean Campus (Phases 1-2, 8 buildings) (5,000).
Public job calls with extra pay right now: STACK Lancaster data center (IBEW 20, Incentive, 2 contractors); DataBank DFW11 (IBEW 20, Incentive, 1 contractor); QTS Lancaster data center (IBEW 20, Incentive, 1 contractor). Source: TrampHereBro, from hall postings.
Every figure links to its source on the project page. Dashes mean not reported.
| Project | Location | Owner / builder | Size | Stage | Peak workers | Local | Per diem / over-scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STACK Lancaster data center | Lancaster, TX | STACK Infrastructure | — | Building | — | IBEW 20 | Incentive (incentive) |
| DataBank DFW11 | Red Oak, TX | DataBank | — | Building | — | IBEW 20 | Incentive (incentive) |
| QTS Lancaster data center | Lancaster, TX | QTS Data Centers | — | Building | — | IBEW 20 | Incentive (incentive) |
| Helios campus (Dickens County) | Dickens, TX | Galaxy | 1.63 GW | Building | — | — | — |
| Frontier (Shackelford County, 10 data centers) | Albany, TX | Vantage Data Centers | 1.4 GW · $25B | Building | — | — | — |
| Sweetwater 1 | Sweetwater, TX | IREN | 1.4 GW | Building | — | — | — |
| Stargate I / Lancium Clean Campus (Phases 1-2, 8 buildings) | Abilene, TX | Crusoe / DPR Construction (lead); Rosendin Electric and Southland (prime contractors) | 1.2 GW | Building | 5,000 | — | — |
| Milam County Stargate | Cameron, TX | SB Energy | 1.2 GW | Building | — | — | — |
| Central Texas campus (three 400 MW phases) | San Marcos, TX | CloudBurst Data Centers | 1.2 GW · $14.5B | Building | — | — | — |
| El Paso Data Center | El Paso, TX | Meta / JE Dunn and Hensel Phelps | 1 GW · $14B | Building | 4,000 | — | — |
| Beacon Point (Phases 1-2, Nueces County) | Corpus Christi, TX | Hut 8 | 1 GW · $17B | Building | 1,900 | — | — |
| Abilene AI factory for Microsoft (adjacent campus, two buildings) | Abilene, TX | Crusoe | 900 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Claude campus (Armstrong County, for Google) | Claude, TX | Crusoe / DPR Construction, Southland Industries and Rosendin (multi-prime) | 900 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Project Caprock (six facilities) | Abernathy, TX | Aligned Data Centers | 540 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Thad Hill data center (Bosque County, Phase 1-2 power) | Meridian, TX | CyrusOne | 400 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Freestone Energy Center data center (Phase 1) | Fairfield, TX | CyrusOne | 380 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Barber Lake | Colorado City, TX | Cipher Digital | 300 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Temple campus | Temple, TX | Rowan Digital Infrastructure | 300 MW · $700M | Building | — | — | — |
| Project Cinco | Lytle, TX | Rowan Digital Infrastructure | 300 MW · $900M | Building | — | — | — |
| Abernathy HPC campus (Fluidstack joint venture) | Abernathy, TX | Fluidstack | 168 MW | Building | — | — | — |
| Google AI campus (Armstrong County) | Amarillo, TX | Google / Crusoe (developer) | — | Building | 5,500+ on site daily | — | — |
| Project Star energy campus | Encinal, TX | Related Companies + NextEra Energy | 6.47 GW · $22.3B | Planned | ~8,400 | — | — |
| Caldwell Valley Technology Park | Lockhart, TX | Tract | 4 GW | Planned | — | — | — |
| Champion campus (former Southland Paper Mill) | Lufkin, TX | Amp Z | 2.1 GW | Planned | — | — | — |
| Pecos datacenter campus | Pecos, TX | Microsoft | 2 GW | Planned | 6,000 | — | — |
| Childress AI data center campus | Childress, TX | Crusoe | 1 GW | Planned | — | — | — |
| Colchis | San Angelo, TX | Cipher Digital | 1 GW | Planned | — | — | — |
| Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) | Odessa, TX | New Era Energy & Digital | 1 GW | Planned | — | — | — |
| Hudspeth County data center (Desert Haven) | Hudspeth County, TX | ServerDomes Global (involved) | $15B | Planned | 800 | — | — |
| Project Horizon | Fort Stockton, TX | Poolside | 2 GW | Paused | — | — | — |
Dashes mean not reported. Worker figures are as announced and may be cumulative, not concurrent. Open a project for its source.