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Data City (Energy Abundance)

Data City is an AI data center campus developed by Energy Abundance Development Corporation in Texas, Laredo. 5 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Announced · Energy Abundance Development Corporation · greenfield · ERCOT · Laredo, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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Under construction
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Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 5 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

6th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses95th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 4,050,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2026. 3 months away. Claimed by Energy Abundance Development Corporation (source).

Data City (Energy Abundance) capacity claims
Source
Announced5 GW2025-04-07claimedpress release

Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

5 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Energy Abundance Development Corporation

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

greenfield

Land

5 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The story of Data City (Energy Abundance)
Cooling
District cooling; power-dense racking optimized for NVIDIA chips; dual-fuel gas turbines transitioning to 100% green hydrogen from adjacent 2 TWh Hydrogen City salt-dome storage
Grid
ERCOT · Fully islanded from ERCOT: the campus runs on its own wind, solar, batteries and dual-fuel gas turbines, intended to shift to green hydrogen over time, drawing on the adjacent Hydrogen City salt dome storage of about 2 TWh. It opens at 300 MW across 1 million square feet in 2026 against a 5 GW ambition.

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(607)

The deal

developer
Energy Abundance Development Corporation

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Fully islanded from ERCOT: the campus runs on its own wind, solar, batteries and dual-fuel gas turbines, intended to shift to green hydrogen over time, drawing on the adjacent Hydrogen City salt dome storage of about 2 TWh. It opens at 300 MW across 1 million square feet in 2026 against a 5 GW ambition.
Water
Not published. The launch release describes a centralised district cooling system built around direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and says nothing about where the water comes from or how much is needed, on a 50,000 acre site in a part of Texas where that is the question.

Data City on-site generation, solar, Announced. Wind + solar + battery + dual-fuel gas turbines to hydrogen; capacities not itemized

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 52.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). Data City's announced 5 GW would be 9.6% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Webb County, week of 2026-09-08 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Data City sits on greenfield in Texas, Laredo. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on mixed power, interconnection is Fully islanded from ERCOT: the campus runs on its own wind, solar, batteries and dual-fuel gas turbines, intended to shift to green hydrogen over time, drawing on the adjacent Hydrogen City salt dome storage of about 2 TWh. It opens at 300 MW across 1 million square feet in 2026 against a 5 GW ambition.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Cooling
District cooling; power-dense racking optimized for NVIDIA chips; dual-fuel gas turbines transitioning to 100% green hydrogen from adjacent 2 TWh Hydrogen City salt-dome storage source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    developer: Energy Abundance Development Corporation
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Announced

Sources

a6b4ec9e-0a60-4e81-92a2-cbd514edd057 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Data City (Energy Abundance)?
Data City (Energy Abundance) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Laredo. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Data City (Energy Abundance) use?
Data City (Energy Abundance) has 5 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Data City (Energy Abundance)?
Energy Abundance Development Corporation is recorded as a party to Data City (Energy Abundance) on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Data City (Energy Abundance) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Data City (Energy Abundance) is announced but not yet built. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Data City (Energy Abundance)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Data City (Energy Abundance): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/energy-abundance-data-city-laredo-webb-texas

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