Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Collin County, TX
Collin County, Texas has 18 mapped data center facilities, including Aligned Data Centers, CyrusOne, DataBank, carrying about 441 MW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
Collin County has no health violations in the last 5 years, moderate drought, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 18
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 441 MW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- Not reported
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #35
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Collin County?
18 facilities are mapped to Collin County, Texas across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including Aligned Data Centers, CyrusOne, DataBank. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- OpenStreetMap
Aligned Data Centers
Aligned Data Centers · Plano, TX
- OpenStreetMap
Cisco Allen
48
- OpenStreetMap
CyrusOne Allen
CyrusOne · 48
- EPA ECHO
DATABANK DFW3
DataBank · PLANO, TX
- EPA CWA
DATABANK DFW3
DataBank · PLANO, TX
- OpenStreetMap
DataBank Plano Data Center
DataBank · Plano, TX
- OpenStreetMap
Evoque Allen DA1
Centersquare · Allen, TX
- OpenStreetMap
Experian McKinney Data Center
48
- OpenStreetMap
Flexential Dallas - Plano
Flexential · Plano, TX
- OpenStreetMap
Flexential Dallas - Richardson
Flexential · Richardson, TX
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 1484435248
48
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 254773884
Allen, TX
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 474660915
48
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 483286527
48
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 590213770
48
- OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap data center 931729011
48
- OpenStreetMap
Stream DFW IV
Stream · 48
- OpenStreetMap
Tierpoint Dallas-Allen
48
Supply versus demand
How much water do Collin County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
No Clean Water Act permitted discharge is reported for the mapped facilities in Collin County. The figures below show the county's industrial water baseline for context.
- Mapped facility discharge
- Not reported
- County industrial baseline
- 1.17 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Collin County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, Collin County sits at 15, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Collin County.
Your facility would use 68.4% of this county's industrial water baseline. Verify water rights and long-term drought projections before committing.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Collin County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #35
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- -4
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 0.3%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Collin County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.