An $8 billion data center called Clocktower is planned at 4628 Four Corners Road in Quanah, a Hardeman County town of roughly 2,300 residents. The single-story, 288,355-square-foot building is designed to anchor a much larger 756-megawatt campus being developed by Integra Mission Critical, with construction scheduled to run from November 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028.
Texoma reported on the project at texomashomepage.com, putting its value at an estimated $8 billion and detailing plans for a pre-engineered metal building with an insulated metal panel skin and a dedicated office component. Construction Review Online, which first reported on the Clocktower building's advancement, has noted that the facility is owned by 19000-200 Holdings LLC, an Integra Mission Critical vehicle, and designed by Dallas-based JHET Architects. The Construction Review Online report also describes the project's internal designation as Clocktower – NWB 05, or Building 5 – Network, suggesting the Quanah campus is planned to include multiple structures beyond this first one.
Closed-Loop Cooling and a Dedicated Substation
On its own project website, the Quanah Data Center describes itself as still moving through engineering, planning and development activities. Per quanahdc.com, the facility is being designed with closed-loop cooling in which water circulates through the system and is reused again and again rather than constantly being consumed. The same site states that Integra is investing in new electrical infrastructure, including a dedicated substation and other upgrades identified through the utility review process, and that the company is responsible for funding required studies and infrastructure improvements.
The website also acknowledges, without offering a specific figure, that projects of this size create opportunities during both construction and long-term operations. No verified construction or permanent job counts, tax-revenue estimates, or confirmed list of tenants for the Quanah campus have been established in available reporting.
Water Concerns Loom Over Drought-Stricken County
Residents of Hardeman County have also raised questions about water use. Separate reporting by the same Texoma outlet described local worry over a proposal discussed at a water-authority meeting that would allow use of up to 11,000 gallons of Red River water per day; it remains unclear whether that specific proposal applies to the Clocktower project or elsewhere in Integra's broader campus. Residents cited ongoing drought conditions, low lake levels and water-conservation concerns in raising those questions, according to the station's report.
A Grid Already Straining Under Demand
The Quanah project is entering a Texas power market already stretched thin. ERCOT's preliminary long-term forecast projects approximately 367,790 megawatts of demand across its region by 2032, though the grid operator is careful to note that this forecast is a preliminary snapshot used for planning purposes and is not a prediction of what will actually get built.
ERCOT fielded 225 new large-load interconnection requests in the prior year; separately, the waitlist for large facilities seeking to connect to the grid stood at 410,000 megawatts.
Elsewhere in Texas, the scale of data-center buildout is already visible. Galaxy Digital recently received ERCOT approval for an additional 830 megawatts of computing capacity at its Helios campus in Dickens County, following completion of large-load interconnection studies facilitated by Wind Energy Transmission Texas, according to DatacenterDynamics. That approval, paired with a service agreement with AEP Texas Inc., pushed Helios' total approved and contracted capacity past 1.6 gigawatts on a 160-acre site that Galaxy says could eventually support up to 3.5 gigawatts, with CoreWeave's 15-year lease of the facility's earlier 800-megawatt capacity projected to generate more than $1 billion in average annual revenue.
What Remains Unresolved in Quanah
For all the detail released so far, the Quanah campus has not disclosed its anchor tenant, utility partner, or a phase-one power target. Full buildout to the planned 756-megawatt capacity will also depend on transmission work extending beyond the site's boundary, and the dedicated substation must be energized before the first hall can even begin operating.
Whether the December 31, 2028 completion date holds will likely come down to labor and electrical-equipment availability, with crews also facing a narrow work window before Hardeman County's winter weather sets in. Integra's broader campus carries a baseline investment figure of $6.7 billion, separate from the $8 billion value stated for the Clocktower building itself, and already faces scrutiny locally over water use, grid draw and construction traffic as the project advances in a town more accustomed to quiet farm roads than billion-dollar buildout.
