{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/charlierussorealty-com\/2026\/09\/21\/what-to-know-about-amazons-nearly-3000-acre-data-center-planned-outside-of-houston\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:00:00","slug":"what-to-know-about-amazons-nearly-3000-acre-data-center-planned-outside-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/21\/what-to-know-about-amazons-nearly-3000-acre-data-center-planned-outside-of-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Amazon&#8217;s nearly 3,000-acre data center planned outside of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Amazon is making a big move just outside Houston, with plans for a $10 billion data center campus spread across nearly 3,000 acres. More than 10 buildings will rise to support the ever-growing demand for cloud and AI services. The scale is impressive\u2014think 163 million gallons of water and over 75 megawatts of electricity, plus 150+ jobs expected by 2027. As someone who\u2019s spent two decades watching how land use shapes West Houston and Katy, I can\u2019t help but see the ripple effects: major investments like this one don\u2019t just change the landscape\u2014they drive economic activity, influence local infrastructure, and open the door to fresh opportunities for residents and property owners alike. Real estate, at its core, is about building futures\u2014and big moves like this are proof positive that our region remains a magnet for growth.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/article\/amazon-aws-data-center-houston-wharton-boling-22391947.php\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is making a big move just outside Houston, with plans for a $10 billion data center campus spread across nearly 3,000 acres. More than 10 buildings will rise to support the ever-growing demand for cloud and AI services. The scale is impressive\u2014think 163 million gallons of water and over 75 megawatts of electricity, plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlierussorealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}