Rice Data Center is a data center in Houston, TX, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Houston data-center market on the ERCOT grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 36.3-month time-to-power. The market shows mixed signals — validate live grid headroom and queue depth before committing capacity.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Houston — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Houston — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Houston's data center footprint stands at 1,075 MW across 97 tracked facilities, positioning it as a mid-tier regional hub caught between growth ambition and near-term capacity constraints. The market is fragmented: CyrusOne and DataBank each operate five facilities, while ServerFarm holds four, creating operational diversity but limiting single-operator dominance. The tracked M&A pipeline shows two Amazon transactions valued at $10,000 each and one I Squared Capital deal at $225 million, though transaction metadata remains opaque, suggesting either incomplete reporting or early-stage deal structuring. The DCPI verdict of excess-power 65/100 paired with constraint 51/100 signals cautious optimism with structural friction. The excess-power score indicates available generation capacity in the region, but the constraint component—sitting just above the midpoint—reflects real bottlenecks in…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 125 operating generating units totalling 20,958 MW within about 50 km of Houston, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
Comparable facilities in Houston tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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