Digital Realty and Equinix both have multiple huge datacenters, the Informart[1] houses several gigantic datacenters inside of one building (it's mind boggling how utterly big it is), Internap has an absolutely gigantic facility there, Rackspace has I think their biggest facility here, and then there's a smattering of smaller datacenters (in and out of the Infomart) owned by every major player.
There's so much space here that most companies have only recently started chasing after highly dense stuff (like 60+ drive arrays in 4U, hyper-dense blades, etc) because there just is no need to.
And as a side note, Texas now operates the largest number of wind turbines (by MW) and I think per capita as well. Texas now generates so much power that they regularly sell it to nearby states because the whole "long term storage" problem hasn't been solved at the scale Texas needs it to be...
Which means not only is datacenter space plentiful, the power is often less expensive than it is in other markets.
There's so much space here that most companies have only recently started chasing after highly dense stuff (like 60+ drive arrays in 4U, hyper-dense blades, etc) because there just is no need to.
And as a side note, Texas now operates the largest number of wind turbines (by MW) and I think per capita as well. Texas now generates so much power that they regularly sell it to nearby states because the whole "long term storage" problem hasn't been solved at the scale Texas needs it to be...
Which means not only is datacenter space plentiful, the power is often less expensive than it is in other markets.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart