Texas Data Center Boom 2026: Financing the Housing Build-Out Around Megaprojects
Quick answer: Texas’s AI data-center and chip-plant boom — 248+ projects statewide, roughly 6.5 GW under construction, and JLL projecting Texas becomes the world’s largest data-center hub by 2030 — is creating an acute housing shortage in boomtowns like Abilene, Taylor, Sherman and Bastrop. For real estate investors, that translates into demand for new rental […]









