Integra's $8 Billion Quanah Data Center Filing Raises Cost Questions

By Tom Whitfield

An Integra affiliate registered an estimated $8 billion data center in Quanah, Texas, through an Oct. 27 state filing. The 288,355-square-foot “Building 5 - Network” has construction scheduled from Nov. 1, 2026, through Dec. 31, 2028. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing names the project “Clocktower - NWB 05” and places it at 4628 Four Corners Road in Hardeman County.

What does the Texas filing establish?

The state document describes a new single-story data center with an office component, built as a pre-engineered metal building with insulated metal panels. Its 288,355-square-foot floor area establishes the scale of the specific facility described in the filing.

The filing names 19000-200 Holdings, LLC as registered owner, at the same address as Integra's headquarters at 17000 Dallas Parkway, Suite 200. JHET Architects of Dallas serves as designer, and the filing assigns no tenant to the facility.

Those entries identify the legal owner and design team, but they do not establish a customer or operating revenue for the building. The document records a planned facility and schedule, not an operating data center.

Why do the investment figures conflict?

Integra's community website describes the overall campus as 756 MW with $6.7 billion in total capital investment. That company figure is smaller than the estimated $8 billion the state filing assigns to Building 5 alone, an inconsistency Integra has not explained.

Because Integra has published no reconciliation, the two numbers should not be treated as matching estimates for the same investment. The 756 MW figure is a company description of the campus, not a confirmed operating load.

Integra must separate sitewide capacity from the cost of one registered building before the public numbers can support a commercial comparison. The practical takeaway is simple: the public cost figures do not yet form a coherent campus budget.

What does the site preparation show?

An Integra land affiliate bought about 918 acres for the Quanah site in May. The company says construction crews began mobilizing in October, with the workforce set to grow as additional phases start. Those statements mark early site work separately from the formal construction period recorded in the state filing.

Water use will rely on closed-loop cooling, according to Integra. The system recirculates water rather than releasing it through evaporation.

Land control and early mobilization give the schedule a physical basis, but they do not by themselves confirm completion by 2028.

Can Integra secure enough power?

Integra has not named a power supplier or a date for connecting the campus to the grid. Data center tracker Baxtel lists the planned supply arrangement as a dedicated substation funded by the developer. The filing and company materials give no grid-interconnection schedule.

In August, Integra backed Texas Governor Greg Abbott's order for the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to review large projects seeking grid connections. The company said its approach includes “appropriate on-site generation strategies,” placing on-site power within its stated planning.

The source does not specify the generation technology, capacity or a commissioning date. The central commercial gap is power delivery, because no supplier or connection date appears in the public record.

What does the manufacturing footprint contribute?

Integra is described as a Dallas-based data center developer and manufacturer with more than 2,000 employees. It operates a 1.2 million-square-foot manufacturing and integration plant in Houston. The company says many systems used in its data centers are built at its own factories in the United States and Canada.

That footprint provides an internal route from system assembly to data center deployment, although Integra has not said which systems Building 5 will contain. The project filing also names no tenant, leaving the building's customer mix and revenue unstated.

Vertical manufacturing can support deployment control, but the filing provides no basis for assigning Building 5 a customer or revenue.

Integra now has a registered building, land bought by an affiliate and a construction window through 2028, but power access, tenancy and investment scope remain open. The next test is whether the company can reconcile those figures and convert 756 MW of planned campus capacity into operating capacity with a named customer.