Amazon Floydada campus In review
Amazon Data Services filed TDLR registrations for three data center buildings (B, C, D; 189,060 sq ft and ~$300 million each) near Floydada, about 45 miles northeast of Lubbock, with construction planned August 2026 through April 2027. The filings were part of an August 2026 wave totaling 16 buildings and at least $4.8 billion across Floydada, a new Fort Stockton (Pecos County) campus, and six added buildings at Amazon's existing Boling (Wharton County) campus.
Key facts
- Operator
- Amazon Web Services
- Owner
- Amazon
- Filing LLC
- Amazon Data Services
- Location
- Floydada (Floyd County), Texas
- Stage today
- In review
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
What has happened so far (3 events)
- 2026-08-05coverage
All Ag News reported that Floyd County commissioners plan to use a Chapter 312 tax-abatement agreement as leverage over the proposed Amazon data center campus, citing limited regulatory and zoning authority over private property as the reason for turning to incentive conditions to protect water and power resources. · source - 2026-08-06coverage
RFD-TV reported that Floyd County commissioners are considering a Chapter 312 tax-abatement agreement for the proposed Amazon campus (valued at over $1 billion, seven buildings across ~485 acres), with conditions requiring air-cooled systems to reduce groundwater demand and on-site electricity generation to avoid competing with local homes, farms, and businesses during shortages. · source - 2026-08-07filing
Amazon Data Services' TDLR filings for three 189,060 sq ft, ~$300M data center buildings near Floydada were reported, with construction planned August 2026-April 2027. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Floydada (Floyd County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Floydada (Floyd County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 33.980, -101.340 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Texas
- Coreweave Helios — Afton (Dickens County), 48 mi
- Goodnight — Claude (Armstrong County), 74 mi
- Google West Texas campuses — Haskell County (+ Armstrong Co.), 109 mi Approved
- Stargate Abilene — Abilene (Taylor County), 141 mi Approved
- Crusoe Abilene Expansion — Abilene, 143 mi Under construction
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Amazon Floydada campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/amazon-floydada-floyd, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).