Amazon is lining up another big footprint on San Antonio’s west side, and neighbors are already bracing for the ripple effects.
The tech giant has filed plans for a new data center at 2200 State Highway 211, tied to a project carrying the decidedly gentle code name “Lavender Hill.” The reality is less soft-focus: a power- and water-intensive facility that has city leaders and utilities talking about how much growth the grid and water system can realistically handle, and who pays to keep everything running.
City officials say a recent flurry of data center permits has kicked off internal talks about updating zoning rules, expanding recycled-water capacity and making sure electricity allocations do not land as surprise costs on nearby residents.
According to Spectrum News, a March filing describes Lavender Hill as a two-story, roughly 93,000-square-foot facility with an estimated price tag of about $65 million. Construction is slated to start on November 20, 2026, and wrap up on September 29, 2028. Spectrum reports the filing was dated March 25 and notes that Councilmember Ric Galvan has already been fielding calls from residents worried about environmental impacts and potential effects on their utility bills.
State records at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation list Amazon Data Services, Inc. at the Highway 211 site and show a separate TDLR registration for "Lavender Hill Romp 03 and 04 Fit-Out," registered in 2024. The project page outlines an interior fit-out of about 33,411 square feet with an estimated cost near $18.6 million and lists Gensler as the design firm. The property also shows up on a CPS Energy directly affected landowner list, where Amazon and nearby Lavender Hill Properties are among the parcels flagged in the corridor.
Other Amazon filings point to a wider buildout
Lavender Hill is not a one-off. Trade publications and data center trackers say Amazon and Amazon Web Services have several recent filings across San Antonio, including a March registration for a two-story project at 12807 Donop Road. Industry coverage puts that application at roughly 119,400 square feet with an estimated $65 million cost.
DatacenterDynamics and other outlets reported those filings in mid-March and again noted Gensler on design duty.
The so-called Bitter Blue filing is also visible in state project records. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation lists TABS2026014987 for 12807 Donop Road and describes a two-story, single-tenant computer data center with an estimated $65,000,000 cost and a projected construction window that begins late in 2026. That entry gives a hard paper trail to what the trade press has been tracking and underscores how multiple Amazon-linked projects are starting to stack up around the city.
City leaders and utilities weigh tradeoffs
San Antonio City Council members have been briefed by CPS Energy and the San Antonio Water System on how quickly data centers are popping up and what that means for long-term infrastructure planning. Staff have floated possible changes to zoning and the Unified Development Code to guide where these large facilities can set up shop.
KSAT reported on the March briefing, including council discussion about requiring buffers from homes and addressing noise from on-site power generation. The basic tension: San Antonio wants the jobs and investment that come with cloud infrastructure, but not at the expense of nearby neighborhoods or the reliability of the grid.
The city has already put some formal steps in motion. A Governance Committee action and a Council Consideration Request call for a comprehensive look at data center growth, its resource impacts and the policy tools available to respond, according to a City of San Antonio news release. Those planning moves are meant to set the stage for possible zoning amendments and closer utility coordination ahead of the regular code review cycle.
Scale matters: power and water concerns
Utility planners keep coming back to one basic point: scale. Even a single hyperscale data center can become one of the biggest power users in a metro area.
Analysis cited by energy publications notes that a very large data center can draw a continuous amount of power comparable to tens of thousands of homes. In industry shorthand, the largest hyperscale builds are often likened to the electricity use of roughly 80,000 households, a comparison that helps explain why CPS Energy and SAWS are watching the sector so closely. Renewable Energy World places that kind of scale in broader context for grid planners.
Local utility filings and landowner lists already reflect Amazon’s growing footprint in the 211 and Potranco corridor, which in turn has prompted nearby residents to ask hard questions. Among them: Will new projects rely on potable water or recycled supplies, will they bring additional on-site generation into the mix, and who ultimately pays for the system upgrades that make all of it possible?
City staff and utility officials say those are exactly the practical issues they are trying to sort out before any larger wave of construction fully lands.
What’s next for neighbors and the council
Council and staff briefings suggest that internal reviews and potential code changes are on deck in the coming months. The city’s five-year Unified Development Code amendment cycle is scheduled to begin in January 2027, and staff have signaled that internal work could ramp up by mid-2026. KSAT highlighted that timeline in its coverage of the council’s March discussions.
Trade outlets covering the sector say they have reached out to Amazon and AWS for more details on specific projects and buildout timelines. DatacenterDynamics has requested confirmation from the company as part of its reporting.
For now, city leaders say their task is to walk a narrow line: capture the economic upside of data center investment while putting guardrails in place to protect neighborhoods and the municipal systems that keep them running.
