Northeast San Angelo
The City identifies city-owned property near U.S. Highway 67 North and City Farm Road as a place where a future data center may be built.
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SAN ANGELO MARKET + COMMUNITY BRIEF
Growth is a proposal.
The future is a choice.
Follow what is confirmed, what is still open, and how San Angelo can turn one potential data-center investment into a responsible fifty-year development strategy.
3data-center safeguards adopted
0project applications identified by the City
No evaporative coolingCity-stated water policy
50 yearscommunity planning horizon
01 / PUBLIC RECORD
CONFIRMED TODAY
San Angelo has created a site context and governing rules, but the City’s current public page says no development application has been received to determine a facility’s size, utility needs or development requirements.Separate the proposal from the facts.
No project scale is confirmed.
Until an application and project-specific engineering are public, building count, electrical load, water demand, schedule and operating impact remain open questions.
Example terms are not an agreement.
On June 9, the City said circulating 380 documents were examples, nothing had been agreed, and future terms would be discussed in an open meeting.
Read the clarification ↗02 / CITY SAFEGUARDS
RULES BEFORE CONSTRUCTION
These votes establish regulatory guardrails. They do not replace a project-specific application, utility analysis, agreement, permits or performance reporting.San Angelo has begun setting the floor.
Jan. 13, 2026Context established
Site zoning
A zone change for the northeast city-owned property was approved 6–1.
May 19, 2026Safeguard adopted
Land-use rules
Data-center land-use regulations were approved 6–0.
June 2, 2026Safeguard adopted
Sewer + discharge
A data-center sewer and discharge ordinance was approved 5–1.
June 16, 2026Safeguard adopted
Water use
A data-center water-use ordinance was approved 7–0.
03 / DECISION DASHBOARD
KNOWN, PARTIAL, OPEN
This dashboard distinguishes adopted policy from project-specific information that still must be supplied, tested and placed into enforceable terms.A decision is only as strong as its evidence.
Decision areaCurrent public positionStatus
Development application
The City says no application has been received to establish facility size, utility needs or development requirements.
OPENFacility scale + phasing
No project-specific building count, square footage, load or construction schedule is established in the City’s current overview.
OPENWater + cooling
The City says it will not provide water to a data center using evaporative cooling. Project-specific demand still requires documentation.
PARTIALPower delivery
A project-specific load, generation mix, transmission plan and customer-protection package are not established in the current public overview.
OPENSewer + discharge
A governing ordinance is adopted; any facility-specific discharge and pretreatment plan remains to be measured.
PARTIALIncentives + obligations
The City stated June 9 that example documents were not an agreement and that 380 terms had not been decided.
OPENCommunity benefit
Local hiring, training, procurement, infrastructure and enforcement commitments should be written, measurable and public.
TO BUILDStatus labels are Data Centers Texas’ reading of the cited public record—not a City designation and not a judgment for or against a future project.
04 / STRATIGRAPHIC SAN ANGELO
STRATIGRAPHIC DESIGN™ + DEVELOPMENT™
The right question is not only whether a data center belongs here. It is what San Angelo should require, build and recruit so every investment strengthens the next.Use the anchor. Build every layer above it.
Next-generation economy
Advanced manufacturing · cyber · AI · defense · energy technologyUse new infrastructure and talent to recruit employers that create durable, diverse careers.
Local industry network
Suppliers · contractors · 3D construction · robotics · logisticsTurn one construction cycle into permanent local business capacity and reusable expertise.
People + place
Training · housing · healthcare · public safety · quality of lifePrepare for construction demand while building pathways into permanent technical work.
Shared infrastructure
Power · water · fiber · roads · emergency readinessRequire investments to strengthen the wider community and preserve capacity for future growth.
Responsible anchor
Verified technology · enforceable terms · transparent performanceAdvance only when the project, site and commitments meet San Angelo’s long-term thresholds.
Nothing stands alone. Every investment strengthens another link.Framework by Chain of Honor USA
05 / ACTIVE RECRUITMENT
RECRUIT THE RIGHT ANCHOR
San Angelo can identify operators that fit its resources, issue a competitive request for information, and negotiate from published community requirements—not from an open-ended incentive offer.Do not wait for a project. Define the exchange.
Recruitment candidates—not announced projects.The companies below are potential targets identified from public information. No listed company has announced a San Angelo project or expressed confirmed interest.
DataBank
A Texas-based edge and colocation operator whose phased, regional model may fit San Angelo better than a first-wave hyperscale campus.
Review the company evidence ↗EdgeConneX
An edge-to-hyperscale developer with Texas operations and a model that can begin regionally, then expand when power and demand are proven.
Review the company evidence ↗Microsoft
A long-term target for zero-water cooling, a Datacenter Academy partnership and pathways connecting ASU, Howard College and veterans.
Review the company evidence ↗Crusoe
West Texas AI-infrastructure experience makes a modular compute, supplier or training hub plausible—if the power and community package is additive.
Review the company evidence ↗A candidate only with firm grid, water, apprenticeship and community commitments that fit San Angelo’s scale and resource limits.
Review the company evidence ↗Meta
A longer-range prospect if a project can meet enforceable water-restoration, housing, workforce and infrastructure requirements.
Review the company evidence ↗SAN ANGELO BRINGS
A prepared place
- A prequalified site record for land, transmission, fiber, roads, drainage and water
- One accountable city team and a published permitting path
- Training partnerships spanning ASU, Howard College, schools and veterans
- Performance-based incentives released only after verified milestones
- Infrastructure participation only when the investment creates shared public value
↔Performance
exchange
exchange
THE ANCHOR COMMITS
Measurable public value
- Fund dedicated utility and transportation capacity instead of shifting costs to residents
- Use zero-evaporative cooling or an enforceable potable-water budget and drought mode
- Add generation, storage and flexible-load capability that strengthens the grid
- Publish power, water, jobs, wages, local purchasing, noise and emissions results
- Fund apprenticeships, veteran pathways, local suppliers and workforce-housing support
- Accept clawbacks, decommissioning security and a Community Benefit Compact™
Any recruitment, incentive or infrastructure package would require formal City, utility, legal, fiscal and public-process review. Candidate order is a strategic starting point, not a recommendation to award public support.
06 / CORRIDOR ADVANTAGE
THE TWO-INTERSTATE OPPORTUNITY
The highest-leverage highway strategy is to complete the San Angelo relief route as the junction of future I-27 and future I-14, then phase upgrades outward along existing federally designated corridors.Make San Angelo the hinge—not the bypass.
I-27 NORTHSterling City · Big Spring · Lubbock
I-14 WESTMidland–Odessa · I-20
SAN ANGELONorth relief route + full-access junction
I-14 EASTBrady · Central Texas · defense corridor
I-27 SOUTHUS 277 · Sonora · I-10 to San Antonio
Build the hinge first.
Advance the approximately 11-mile north relief route between US 87 and US 67, with the planned US 277 interchange. TxDOT says this one project can accommodate both future I-27 and potential I-14 routing.
Connect west and north.
Use the designated I-14 and I-27 system to tie San Angelo to I-20, Midland–Odessa, Big Spring, Lubbock and continental freight routes without inventing a stand-alone corridor.
Reach San Antonio through I-10.
Prioritize US 277 safety and capacity from San Angelo to Sonora, then use existing I-10 east. A new direct San Antonio expressway would be costlier and would duplicate part of that network.
WHY THIS BENEFITS SAN ANGELOOne junction supports freight, defense, construction, data-center logistics and future industrial sites—while moving through-trucks away from city streets.
This is Data Centers Texas’ strategic interpretation of current corridor plans, not an adopted alignment, construction schedule or funding commitment. TxDOT describes the I-27 system as a decades-long series of incremental upgrades.
07 / PEOPLE + CAPABILITY
BUILD THE PIPELINE NOW
The opportunity is to connect universities, trades training, workforce services, employers and project contractors into one visible pathway from construction through permanent operations.San Angelo already has pieces of the workforce system.
Angelo State University
ASU offers computer science, AI and cybersecurity programs and operates a Regional Security Operations Center with paid student experience.
Explore ASU pathways ↗Howard College
Construction, HVAC, electrical and technical training can support the campus build and the permanent critical-facilities workforce.
Explore trades training ↗Workforce Solutions
Concho Valley services connect job seekers, veterans and employers with job matching, training and eligible support programs.
Open workforce services ↗Build the San Angelo talent networkConstruction, electrical, mechanical, controls, networking, security, logistics and community services.
Build or submit your résumé →08 / COMMUNITY BENEFIT COMPACT™
MEASURE WHAT MATTERS
The compact below is a proposed accountability structure—not a claim that a developer has accepted these commitments.Put the promises where the public can track them.
Water
Publish design, source, one-time fill, annual use, drought stage response and independently verifiable operating results.
Power
Disclose requested load, delivery assets, generation and storage plan, curtailment terms and ratepayer protections.
Workforce
Set construction and permanent-job targets, training partners, career ladders and reporting requirements.
Community capacity
Plan workforce housing, traffic, roads, EMS, fire protection, healthcare and public-safety demand before mobilization.
Local business
Create transparent vendor access, prompt-pay standards and measurable local procurement goals.
Long-term value
Connect infrastructure and training to the next manufacturing, technology, defense and logistics investments.
09 / SAN ANGELO DIRECTORY
ORIGINAL SOURCES + LOCAL PATHWAYS
Use official and institutional sources for current facts. Inclusion identifies a relevant public resource; it is not an endorsement.Research, train, hire and participate.
OrganizationRoleUse this source for
City data-center informationPublic recordCurrent status, adopted regulations and resident Q&AOpen source ↗City Water UtilitiesWater + droughtConservation level, utility operations and public contactsOpen source ↗City GIS development mapLand + infrastructurePublic mapping for zoning, water, sewer and development contextOpen source ↗COSA Development CorporationEconomic developmentSite selection, industry recruitment and workforce supportOpen source ↗Angelo State UniversityAI + cybersecurityComputer science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and RSOC pathwaysOpen source ↗Howard College San AngeloSkilled tradesHVAC, electrical, construction and career-training pathwaysOpen source ↗Workforce Solutions Concho ValleyJobs + trainingJob-seeker, veteran, employer and eligible training support · 325-653-2321Open source ↗SAN ANGELO DEVELOPMENT DESK
Protect what matters.
Build what lasts.
Data Centers Texas can organize the public record, community diagnostic, partner map and long-range implementation framework around San Angelo’s priorities.