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Skybox PowerCampus Texas (Wichita Falls Business Park)
Skybox Datacenters (with Blue Owl, per Skybox); subsidiary Texas Data Center Campus Power, LLC (PUCT complaint); buyer entity Texas Data Centers Campus LLC (per DCD)
- Status
- Proposed / in development (ERCOT classification disputed)
- Developer / parties
- Skybox Datacenters (with Blue Owl, per Skybox); subsidiary Texas Data Center Campus Power, LLC (PUCT complaint); buyer entity Texas Data Centers Campus LLC (per DCD)
- Location
- Wichita Falls (Wichita Falls Business Park), Wichita County
- Size
- 225 acres bought, option on ~125 more; up to 7 buildings, first 150,000 sq ft building possibly operational late 2028 (per DCD, citing local press); 300+ acre campus, up to 2M sq ft, 300+ MW private on-site substations (company); MW redacted in the public PUCT complaint
- Investment
- Land: more than $14.5M paid to the Wichita Falls Economic Development Corporation for 225 acres (per DCD); total investment not stated
- Reported benefits
- 300-500 permanent full-time jobs and 2,000-3,000 construction jobs (company claim); Skybox says it sought no local incentives or tax breaks (Skybox PUCT complaint, citing a City of Wichita Falls / Forward Wichita Falls letter)
- Last verified
- 2026-10-28
Milestones
- Oct 2025 Skybox bought 225 acres in the Wichita Falls Business Park from the Wichita Falls EDC via Texas Data Centers Campus LLC (per DCD)
- Nov 4 2025 Skybox closed on the land, ordered substation equipment and began preconstruction (Skybox's PUCT complaint; dates differ from DCD)
- Sep 30 2025 interim and Dec 12 2025 full Facilities Extension Agreement with Oncor (Skybox's PUCT complaint)
- Feb 2026 Forward Wichita Falls announced Skybox as developer (per DCD)
- Sep 3 2026 ERCOT provisionally classified the project (LLI-2233 / BZ-465) as Studied/Allocated Load rather than Base Load in Batch Zero, and denied Skybox's dispute Sep 18 (per complaint)
- Oct 26 2026 Skybox filed PUCT Docket 60431 seeking Base Load status
- Oct 27 2026 ALJ Order No. 1 abated the case until Nov 10 2026 pending the Commission's Nov 5 open meeting (official)
Linked power & water
Power
- Official record Oncor interconnection: Facilities Extension Agreement; ERCOT LLI-2233 / BZ-465 Batch Zero dispute (PUCT Docket 60431): Skybox's PUCT complaint says it signed an interim FEA with Oncor Sep 30 2025 and a full FEA Dec 12 2025, ordered substation equipment, and that ERCOT reclassified the project to Studied Load on Sep 3 2026 (company filing in an official docket). interchange.puc.texas.gov ↗
- Company claim Private on-site substations in Oncor territory (company): Skybox says PowerCampus Texas offers private onsite substations for 300+ MW users in Oncor's deregulated territory and that Skybox pays 100% of required grid upgrades. skyboxdatacenters.com ↗
Water
- Company claim Closed-loop cooling (company): Skybox says the campus uses closed-loop cooling; after the initial fill, annual water use for the 10-building campus is comparable to ~40 homes. skyboxdatacenters.com ↗
Related records
PUCT ALJ Order No. 1 (Docket 60431): protective order entered; case abated until Nov 10 pending the Commission's Nov 5 open meeting.
Source: interchange.puc.texas.gov ↗PUCT Docket 60431: Skybox complaint says ERCOT wrongly reclassified its Wichita Falls data center (BZ-465) from Base Load to Studied Load in Batch Zero.
Source: interchange.puc.texas.gov ↗DCD: Skybox named developer of Wichita Falls Business Park campus; 225 acres bought from city EDC for >$14.5M; up to 7 buildings.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com ↗Sources
- Official record interchange.puc.texas.gov
- Official record interchange.puc.texas.gov
- Official record interchange.puc.texas.gov
- News report datacenterdynamics.com
- Company claim skyboxdatacenters.com
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