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Digital Realty Austin Campus

Austin, Travis County, TX

Digital Realty Austin Campus is a mapped data center in Travis County, TX, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 220 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Operator
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Power
220 MW
Utility
Bluebonnet Electric Coop, INC
Grid
ERCOT
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

Digital Realty Austin Campus is a colocation data center in Austin, Travis County, Texas, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Running since 2020, the site reports a power capacity of 220 MW, drawing electricity from Bluebonnet Electric Coop, INC on the ERCOT grid. It is currently mapped.

Operator chain

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2014 · term yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

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.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~3.9M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~2.2M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~1.7M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 220 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.4 gal/kWh embedded in ERCOT grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
54
PM2.5
Moderate
24
O3
Good
21
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Austin), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$250K
People of color
22%
Below poverty
4%
Tract population
5,281

Demographics 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 / NCES

The nearest public school, Bridge Point El in Austin, is 1.7 mi from this site (598 students).

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.