Data centers have been the talk of many towns large and small across the country as technology and power grids partner to bring enormous, power-hungry campuses to life. But in Houston, the energy capital of the world, shovels for large data centers haven’t been hitting dirt like they have in other Texas cities.
“Houston isn’t experiencing the gold rush, but we’re providing the pickaxes and the shovels and the wash basins,” Bracewell’s Jared Berg told the Houston Business Journal.
“The model is that AI just needs a ton of compute power, and so the size of data centers is getting larger, and accordingly, power needs in order to power those data centers are increasing,” Berg said. “That land (in the Houston metropolitan area) is just really expensive for the amount that they need.”
