Pace plans 100MW Texas data center with local development focus

New developer Pace is planning a data center with an initial 100MW of capacity at a site in Glasscock County, Texas. The scheme, dubbed the Lone Star Project, will "reflect a Texas-first development philosophy from start to finish," prioritising Texas-based people, providers, contractors, and vendors throughout development and buildout. Pace is a new data center firm based in Austin, founded According to Pace, it has already secured 100MW of behind-the-meter natural gas energy for the data center and has secured land, water, and redundant fiber access needed for the project. The campus is being designed to cater to AI workloads and could eventually scale to 1GW. Pace said it intends to try to secure grid energy from Texas power provider ERCOT to aid later stages of the campus buildout. Texas has become the epicenter of the US AI data center buildout, due to the combination of land and power availability and a favorable regulatory environment for developers. Real estate firm JLL said earlier this year that it expects the state to be the world's largest data center market