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CloudBurst San Marcos Data Center I

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CloudBurst flagship “GigaCenter”
Under construction

A gas-powered 1.2 GW "GigaCenter" rising in the fast-growing Austin-San Antonio corridor, and the lightning rod for San Marcos's packed city-council fights over AI data centers.

1.2 GWPlanned powerMaster-planned to 1.2 GW across phases; gas supply supports up to ~1.8 GW of on-site generation
Developer
CloudBurst Data Centers
Owner
CloudBurst Data Centers
Tenant
AI / high-density compute tenants (TBD)
Power source
Behind-the-meter natural gas: long-term Energy Transfer Oasis Pipeline agreement, up to 450,000 MMBtu/day
Cooling
Advanced high-density cooling architecture
Compute
AI/HDC workloads
Construction start
Nov 2025 (groundbreaking)
Est. completion
Phase 1 (50 MW) live Q4 2026; full 1.2 GW phased
Grid strategy
Behind-the-meter gas
County
Hays, Guadalupe
Nearest city
San Marcos / New Braunfels
Announced
2025-11-05