Siemens is building a new 96,000-square-foot testing and warehousing facility in Grand Prairie, a $19 million project that will begin hiring later this year and operate alongside the company's existing flagship switchgear factory in the city. The announcement, made Thursday, pairs the Grand Prairie project with a much larger $185 million, 550,000-square-foot electrical equipment plant planned for Pendergrass, Georgia, where hiring won't start until 2027.
According to The Dallas Morning News, the two new sites together are expected to add more than 1,500 roles spanning material handling, assembly, fabrication, testing and engineering. Siemens has promised that both facilities will create high-quality, well-paying careers that do not require four-year degrees. Barry Powell said Georgia and Texas were a natural choice for Siemens' next manufacturing investments, citing strong business environments, access to a highly skilled workforce, and proximity to the company's existing operations and supply chain network across the South.
A Second Grand Prairie Site Feeds the Flagship Plant
The new Grand Prairie facility will be used for testing and warehousing and will operate in conjunction with an existing nearby Siemens flagship switchgear factory, which manufactures control and protection systems for larger electrical power systems, per the same Dallas Morning News account. Powell also said Siemens has had success recruiting talent at its other factories in Dallas, a track record the company is now leaning on as it expands its Grand Prairie footprint again.
It's not the first time Siemens has grown this particular site. The company unveiled plans in 2022 to add 25,000 square feet to its Grand Prairie facility, an expansion that IBEW notes was highlighted during a March 2022 White House event with President Joe Biden. That flagship plant also debuted a new all-electric powder-coat paint line in March 2025, according to Finishing and Coating, part of Siemens' push toward net-zero operations by 2030.
Fort Worth's Sister Plant Sets the Template
Grand Prairie's newest addition sits in the shadow of Siemens' much larger $190 million Fort Worth plant, a 500,000-square-foot facility that held its opening ceremony in 2025. That plant manufactures electrical components including low-voltage switchboards used to support data centers, and the Fort Worth site created 480 initial jobs, on track to employ 800 people by 2026 to produce those switchboards, per KERA News. The City of Fort Worth established a 10-year tax abatement reinvestment zone in late 2023 for that plant, projecting jobs with average annual salaries above $63,000, according to Community Impact.
Workforce development has become a defining feature of Siemens' North Texas buildout, and Hoodline has previously reported on how the Fort Worth training pipeline went into overdrive to keep pace with hiring. To build that pipeline, Siemens partnered with local educators including Tarrant County College and recruited former schoolteachers and principals to design vocational curricula and physical learning labs, the company has said. Organized labor has expanded alongside the hiring: workers at the Fort Worth switchgear plant voted 197 to 29 in November 2024 to join IBEW Local 220, joining employees at the existing Grand Prairie flagship plant who were already represented by the union.
Data Centers Are Driving the Demand
Siemens has positioned itself as a forerunner in the data center and AI economy, and the company now has billions of dollars in investments riding on that bet. The August announcement brings Siemens' U.S. manufacturing investments to over $1 billion over five years, fueled by an estimated 10% annual growth in data center demand, the company said.
That demand is especially concentrated in Texas. As of June 2026, Texas leads North America with 6.5 gigawatts of data center capacity under construction, including 86 planned or active data centers in North Texas, according to The Texas Tribune. North Texas is home to Texas Instruments, AT&T and Ericsson, and the region counted 11,000 tech-related job postings, ranking third among all U.S. metro areas for tech-related job postings, according to one analysis cited by the Dallas Morning News. Texas manufacturing sector growth accelerated last month, according to the Dallas Fed survey, adding further momentum to Siemens' expansion timeline.
Siemens Energy & Automation is counted among the top employers in Grand Prairie, contributing to the city's $26.5 billion property tax base for the current fiscal year, according to the City of Grand Prairie. As the German multinational technology and medical company deepens its footprint across the Sunbelt, Grand Prairie's newest facility stands as another sign of how the AI infrastructure boom is reshaping local manufacturing and job markets across North Texas.
