What to know about Amazon’s $10 billion data center outside of Houston

What to know about Amazon’s  billion data center outside of Houston

Trucks drive past the entrance to the construction site of a proposed Amazon data center in Boling on Friday, July 31, 2026.

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Amazon is planning a $10 billion data center campus a little more than an hour from downtown Houston. Many details about the plan, known as Project Eagle, are still unknown, including how much electricity the facility will require.

Here is what public records and company statements tell us about the project, so far.

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A “Welcome to Boling” sign is photographed in Boling on Friday, July 31, 2026.

A “Welcome to Boling” sign is photographed in Boling on Friday, July 31, 2026.

Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle

Where is Amazon’s data center near Houston? And how big is the data center?
The nearly 3,000-acre campus is planned along FM 442 near Boling, a small town in Wharton County, located on the southwestern edge of the Greater Houston region.

The Amazon Web Services project would include at least 10 data center buildings, each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter store,…

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