Blueprint Data Centers Expects To Power 85 Megawatts Of Capacity By 2026 In Texas

The new data center player has won private equity invstement as well as local approval for two sites in Texas — over the objections of residents – and set 2026 as the year it will begin operations.

Blueprint Data Centers – an emerging data center company based in Austin, Texas – announced plans for its first 85 megawatts of capacity at two facilities in the Lone Star State.

The capacity is currently under construction at a site in Taylor, Texas, and another in Georgetown, Texas, which are expected to be powered up by 2026. The facilities are expected to power high-performance compute workloads, including AI. The team behind the facilities hopes the physical location near Samsung’s chip fabrication facility will be a differentiator.

“Our strategic investment and rapid progress in Austin directly address the market's urgent need for immediate and high-performance digital infrastructure solutions,” Yaerid Jacob, Blueprint Data Centers’ founder and CEO (pictured above), said in a prepared statement. “We understand that 'time-to-power' is paramount for our partners' strategic initiatives.”

CRN has reached out to Blueprint for comment, but did not hear back by press time.

Blueprint Data Centers got its start in 2023. The two Texas data centers are the company’s first facilities.

The town of Taylor gave Blueprint Data Center a 10-year, 50-percent property tax adjustment in exchange for building a 60-megawatt facility there. It expects the data center to produce a minimum of five jobs, according to the Austin American Statesman, which wrote about the tax incentives.

According to a press release from the town of Taylor, Blueprint is expected to build a 135,000-square-foot data center space, spread across a three-building campus. The site – which Blueprint acquired for $10 million – will feature an electricity substation to power it, backup power generators, and a closed-loop cooling system, according to the town.

In April of this year, Blueprint won a private equity investment from Northampton Capital Partners, an alternative capital asset manager focused on energy and digital infrastructure. The fund is focused on midmarket investments and has $1.1 billion under management.

In Taylor, the project was reportedly met with significant community resistance and protests. While the town approved the project, Blueprint agreed to install a noise barrier around the facility, limit light pollution at night to necessary security lighting, and negotiate with power provider Oncor to ensure that the site’s electricity would not come at the expense of power for residents.

The facility is expected to provide tax revenue of $30 million over 10 years, the town said.

The Georgetown project sits on 10 acres and will cost an estimated $160 million to develop. It is expected to deliver 25 megawatts of power. That project also won a 50 percent property tax adjustment when the town approved it in September, according to the Austin Business Journal.