08/28/2026
🌎 Dallas just got ranked the number one data center market in the world. Not in Texas. Not in America. The world.
📊 Cushman and Wakefield ranks 107 global markets every year across 24 variables covering power, land, grid stability, fiber, regulation and cost. Dallas took first place for the first time ever. Atlanta came in second. Northern Virginia, which has basically owned that top spot forever, dropped to third. Austin and West Texas led the secondary and tertiary rankings, which means Texas swept all three tiers.
⚡ The scale here is hard to overstate. Global data center capacity under construction hit 31.7 gigawatts in 2025. That more than doubled in a single year. About 80 percent of all of it is in the Americas.
🏗️ In our backyard, DFW already has roughly 220 data centers, more than half of everything in Texas. North Texas has commissioned nearly 3 gigawatts with more than 10 gigawatts planned, and the state is projected to pass 40 gigawatts by 2028. That would be around 30 percent of total US demand.
💼 And the Dallas Fed specifically named the data center buildout as one of the reasons Texas job growth held up this year.
🏘️ Here is the real estate translation. Watch the corridors, not the metro. Grand Prairie, Midlothian, Lancaster, Wilmer, Red Oak, Ellis County, north Fort Worth. These areas were affordable precisely because nothing was out there. Now power, fiber and road infrastructure are showing up first, and housing demand follows infrastructure every single time.
💬 So where do you land? Would you buy near a data center corridor or stay away from it?
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