New AI Data Center Planned For Hood County
Big Digital Energy and 10NetZero are developing a large-scale AI data center campus on a 50-acre plot in Hood County, Texas, with plans for up to 311 megawatts of capacity. Hood County has a history of rejecting some data center plans and postponing others, though it has refused to implement a county-wide moratorium on such projects.
Big Digital Energy, Inc. and energy-infrastructure company 10NetZero have formed a joint venture to construct a large-scale data center campus for artificial intelligence tenants on a 50-acre site in Hood County, Texas. The project currently operates with 17 megawatts of power, with ambitions to expand to 311 megawatts of potential capacity, pending ERCOT approvals and necessary infrastructure upgrades. Big Digital Energy also plans additional sites in Dallas, Mustang, and South Texas.
The company emphasizes the national security importance of its work. Hood County has previously been a battleground for data center development, with its County Commissioners having postponed some data center proposals and outright rejected others. However, the Commissioners have consistently declined to implement a county-wide moratorium on all such projects.