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CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels)

CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

96-acre site at 2955 Francis Harris Lane with a New Braunfels mailing address, but outside the city limits of New Braunfels and San Marcos; site straddles Hays and Guadalupe County jurisdictions, between Austin and San Antonio. Lat/lng not given in sources.

Capacity
1,200 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-11-05).
Schedule staleness decay -25 CloudBurst Data Center (New Braunfels) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-11-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  2. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
CloudBurst Data Centers
Developer
CloudBurst Data Centers
Operator
Evolve Holdings
Epc Contractor
Energy Transfer
Utility Provider

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Evolve Holdings · Nov 5, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://evolveincorporated.com/company-news/cloudburst-and-evolve-break-ground-on-1-2gw-flagship-ai-data-center-campus-incentral-texas

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Data Center Dynamics

  2. · Evolve Holdings

  3. · Community Impact