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Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County)

Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

~440 acres near Lytle (CR-683 & TX-132), Medina County, outside San Antonio — AEP territory. Phased: first ~60MW targeted early 2026, full operations 2027. Groundbroke Aug 7 2025; $550M construction financing closed Feb 2026.

Capacity
300 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

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

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 Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County) 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 (2025-08-07).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Rowan Cinco Data Center Campus (Medina County) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-08-07 (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:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Turner Construction
General Contractor
Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Developer

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. Data Center Dynamics · Aug 8, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/rowan-digital-breaks-ground-on-300mw-data-center-campus-outside-san-antonio-texas/

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Oct 8, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/construction-worker-killed-at-data-center-project-in-medina-county-texas/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics

  2. · Data Center Dynamics