San Antonio, TX

July 10, 2026

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430 Opposition Groups in a Year. The Ones Who Engage Early Still Break Ground.

In San Antonio, District 6 Councilmember Ric Galvan put actual impact in perspective: all San Antonio data centers together consume less than 0.3% of the city's water supply.

June 26, 2026

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Five Tests Now Separate Real Load From Speculation in Texas

Microsoft, separately, claims fleet-wide water positivity in 2025, cutting WUE to 0.27 L/kWh, with San Antonio facilities running 79% recycled or non-potable water.

June 22, 2026

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ERCOT Studies Big Loads in Batches Now. The Queue Math Just Changed.

Vantage's 1.4GW Shackelford County campus, Crusoe's Abilene build, QTS in Dallas, and Microsoft's San Antonio development all sit in that 75MW+ bracket.

May 11, 2026

The finding lands the same week San Antonio's CPS Energy showed how disciplined large-load policy can move the other direction: water consumption at just 0.1% of municipal supply, with 75% sourced from recycled wastewater.

May 10, 2026

San Antonio offers the constructive counter-model.

April 9, 2026

Community opposition is coalescing in coordinated fashion: a San Antonio convening called "Texas Data Center Rebellion" brought organizers from El Paso, Taylor, Amarillo, San Antonio, and DFW.

April 8, 2026

Williamson County now anchors Central Texas's data center corridor, with 7,823 megawatts planned across the Austin-San Antonio region against just 1,154 megawatts operating.

April 1, 2026

Meanwhile, Central Texas's corridor from Temple to San Antonio now carries 7,823 MW of planned capacity against just 1,154 MW operating, with 96% of construction pre-leased.

March 31, 2026

Amazon filed plans for three San Antonio facilities totaling over 370,000 square feet and $65 million, while Meta boosted its El Paso commitment to $10 billion targeting 1 GW by 2028.

March 16, 2026

HIVE Digital Technologies, a San Antonio-based company executing its AI compute growth in Manitoba and British Columbia rather than Texas, scaling from 4 MW to 16.6 MW of liquid-cooled GPU capacity through a Bell Canada partnership.

March 8, 2026

San Antonio's 59-Project Pipeline Exposes the Texas Capacity Question