How much power will data centers in Texas need by 2030?
How much electricity will Texas data centers need by 2030?
Aterio’s latest forecast shows demand climbing from 4.71 GW in 2025 to 12.12 GW in 2030—a 7.41 GW jump in just five years, enough to power roughly 6 million U.S. homes.
Aterio datasets
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The records behind this article live in the US Data Center Database: Locations and Power Demand dataset.
Why the surge? Texas continues to attract hyperscale and AI‑focused facilities thanks to land availability, robust transmission corridors, competitive power pricing, and a fast‑moving interconnection queue.
And that 12.12 GW figure is conservative. It assumes only 70 % of newly announced projects actually get built. If every announcement on the books today reaches completion, Texas alone would need ~15 GW of new load—more than the peak demand of several U.S. states combined.
How we build it
- Permits & interconnection filings (state, county, ISO queues)
- Satellite‑image & aerial updates to confirm construction progress
- Provider press releases & SEC/PUC submissions
- Utility resource‑planning docs & PUR filings
- Daily QA by analysts to reconcile discrepancies (ownership changes, stage slippage, delays)
Dataset size (June 2025)
- 4,300+ total data‑center buildings in the US
- 2,300+ announced / under‑construction buildings
- 350+ projects with generator‑level equipment detail
- Daily updates + weekly market overview + public monthly report (30‑day lag)
Who uses it?
Grid planners, utilities, OEMs, commodity desks, real‑estate investors—and increasingly AI teams that feed the data directly into LLM‑based agents for automated risk alerts or site scouting.
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