Aligned Data Centers
401 North Star Road · Plano, Collin County, TX
Source: OpenStreetMap
Aligned Data Centers is a mapped data center in Collin County, TX, operated by Prime Data Centers. DataCentersExposed has documented a 215,534 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify
Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
source: linkAligned Data Centers is a mapped colocation site in Plano, Collin County, Texas, run by Prime Data Centers. Its reported footprint is 215,534 square feet. No corporate parent above Prime Data Centers appears in available records.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentPrime Data Centers
- Files asPrime Data Centers
- This facilityAligned Data Centers
In the news
source: Google News- Aligned Data Centers plots suburban complex after Phoenix restrictionsThe Real Deal· May 29, 2026
- As Texas data center gold rush reaches fever pitch, so does local resentmentThe Real Deal· May 15, 2026
- Mike Rowe Says Data Center Electricians Under 30 Are Earning $260K With No College Degree & Getting Poached Like It's A 'Draft In The Major Leagues'Yahoo Finance· Apr 2, 2026
- Lambda to deploy GPU cluster at Prime's LAX01 data center in CaliforniaData Center Dynamics· Nov 17, 2025
- Data-center operator CoreWeave is a stock-market darling. Bears see its finances as emblematic of an AI infrastructure bubbleYahoo Finance· Nov 8, 2025
- Prime Data Centers Appoints New Chief Legal Officer and New SVP of Product Delivery, North AmericaDallas Innovates· Oct 30, 2025
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 37 MW (interconnection capacity): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Dallas-Fort Worth), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Otto Middle in Plano, is 0.4 mi from this site (995 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.