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Project Comal

Project Comal

Permitted
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

1051 County Road 401, Taylor, TX, approximately 35 miles (56km) northeast of Austin, near the Samsung semiconductor plant. Parcel size is reported inconsistently: DCD (E3) says 220 acres, while the official City of Taylor page (E1) and CBS Austin (E4) say approximately 210 acres (163 acres annexed early 2025 plus ~48 acres in ETJ).

Capacity
360 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
$2.5B
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

65.9 /100
65.9/100

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

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

76 /100
76/100

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
Infrastructure baseline 70 Project Comal No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 Project Comal No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 Project Comal No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Utility Approval Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2026-03-26.
Schedule baseline 80 Project Comal No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-03-26).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Utility Approval Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-03-26).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
KDC
Developer
— —
KDC
Owner
— —
Oncor
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. E3
    Data Center Dynamics - 360MW data center to be built outside Austin, Texas

    Data Center Dynamics · Apr 1, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/360mw-data-center-to-be-built-outside-austin-texas/

  2. E4
    Spectrum News - Taylor approves land annexation for KDC data center

    Spectrum News · Mar 27, 2026 · backs: actual date, capex usd

    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2026/03/27/taylor-approves-land-annexation-for-kdc-data-center

Signals

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

  1. E3
    Data Center Dynamics - 360MW data center to be built outside Austin, Texas

    · Data Center Dynamics

  2. E4
    Spectrum News - Taylor approves land annexation for KDC data center

    · Spectrum News