Houston I Data Center — The Woodlands, TX · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
7.8 MW	Critical IT Load	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Operator design supports 7.8 MW of 2N critical load; not measured operating demand.
7.5 MW	Utility Service	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Redundant utility-feed capacity reported for the facility.
6.75 MW	Critical IT Load	Target	Exact Asset	—
Critical-capacity support reported for the exact Houston I facility.
2.4 MW	Energized Power	Energized	Exact Asset	—
Power currently commissioned at the purpose-built facility.
1.1 MW	Leasable IT Load	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Flexible turnkey capacity reported as available.
7 MW	Utility Service	Reported	Exact Asset	—
Total power reported by a third-party facility directory.

Utility: Entergy
ISO / RTO: ERCOT
Substation: Two unnamed substations; the facility is described as having dual underground utility feeds from two substations.
Redundancy: Dual underground utility feeds from two substations, 2N distribution from the utility to the rack/IT environment, and 2N generator redundancy.
Backup generation: 2N generator redundancy is reported for the facility; generator capacity and fuel quantity were not established from an exact-site source.
Power sources: Entergy utility grid via dual underground utility feeds
Grid flexibility: Flexible turnkey capacity of 1.1 MW is reported; no demand-response, load-flexibility, battery-dispatch, or other grid-services capability was identified.

Facility and development

IT floor area (sq ft): 30,000
Gross floor area (sq ft): 74,901
Construction: Houston I is an operating Stream Data Centers private data-center facility. The facility is described as a 74,901-square-foot building containing three independent 10,000-square-foot private data-center suites; official operator material states it has maintained uptime since 2013.
Land transaction: The facility was sold by Stream Data Centers to an unnamed organization; the buyer was not identified in the available evidence.
Facility class: Colocation · Enterprise · AI HPC
Workloads: high-performance computing · HPC and supercomputer deployments · enterprise infrastructure · cloud computing · IoT, edge, and 5G applications
Rack density (kW): 30
Availability tier: Uptime Tier III Design Certified; Stream also describes an IEEE-certified six-nines design.
Cooling systems: High-efficiency air-cooled chillers in an N+1 configuration serving a 36-inch raised-floor environment, with remotely placed temperature and humidity sensors. · Chilled water is available to the rack for high-density deployments.
Cooling medium: Air via air-cooled chillers, with chilled water available to the rack for high-density deployments.
Fiber and connectivity: Carrier-neutral, network-rich facility with AT&T, CenturyLink/Lumen, Comcast, Crown Castle, Ezee Fiber, Fidium, Megaport, and Tachus. It has a pre-designed dark-fiber ring to strategic Houston-metro carrier locations, diverse private fiber conduits, and Crown Castle fiber brought directly into Houston I; Stream reports sub-1-ms round-trip latency to major regional carrier hotels.
Operating context: Operating since 2013 as Stream Data Centers’ Houston I private data center (IAHA1), with three independent 10,000-square-foot private data-center suites and retail-colocation availability. The facility supports high-performance computing and enterprise infrastructure, with independent power and cooling per suite and turnkey capacity described by Stream.
Environmental commitments: LEED Silver certification is reported for Houston I.
Environmental impacts: No quantified water, emissions, or other environmental impacts were disclosed for the exact Houston I facility in the reviewed sources. · The facility is described as being outside the 500-year floodplain, which reduces stated flood-exposure risk.
Project cost (USD): 35,000,000
Land cost (USD): 0
Incentives (USD): 0
Tax abatements: No site-specific tax-abatement award or agreement was identified. Stream describes general Texas data-center sales-tax exemptions, but does not document Houston I's receipt or dollar value.
Utility agreements: No utility agreement or serving-utility contract was identified. The facility is documented as having dual underground utility feeds from two substations. · Crown Castle announced a fiber-network partnership with Stream's Houston I facility; commercial terms were not disclosed.
Power purchase agreements: No site-specific power-purchase agreement, counterparty, price, or term was identified in the reviewed evidence.
Permits and dockets: Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Architectural Barriers Project EABPRJB2809452, STREAM HOUSTON PRIVATE DATA CENTER I: registered March 14, 2012; new construction; estimated cost $35,000,000; privately funded on private land; construction dates May 1, 2012-February 1, 2013; inspection complete.
Transactions: Stream's official Houston/The Woodlands page marks the exact Houston I site as sold. Available evidence does not identify the buyer, sale price, or closing date. · Local reporting states that Stream acquired slightly more than seven acres for the original data-center development at 4001 Technology Forest Drive; the acquisition price and counterparty were not disclosed.
Community benefits: The Woodlands Area Economic Development Partnership said the project would bring significant capital investment, benefit property-tax revenue, and help recruit and support companies. · Reported community-service benefits of property-tax revenue included public safety, fire protection, environmental services, parks, pathways, pools, and economic development. · The facility was designed with hurricane-resistant construction, redundant power from two substations, fiber infrastructure, and continuous-operation capabilities. · Crown Castle fiber was reported to improve route diversity and connectivity for cloud, IoT, edge, 5G, and other data-intensive applications. · The project was promoted as supporting long-term energy efficiency and helping make The Woodlands an innovation and connectivity hub.

Identity and campus: Stream Data Centers’ Houston-area data-center campus in The Woodlands
Also reported as IAHA1, Houston 1, Stream Data Centers Houston I - The Woodlands, Stream Data Centers Houston.
Regulatory record: Houston I is documented by TDLR as a privately funded, privately owned new-construction commercial data center at 4001 Technology Forest Blvd. Project EABPRJB2809452 was registered March 14, 2012, had construction dates of May 1, 2012 through February 1, 2013, and reached inspection-complete status. Corgan Associates Inc. was the design firm. Stream's facility materials document dual underground utility feeds from two substations. No site-specific PPA, utility contract, or additional regulatory docket was identified.
Availability tier: Uptime Tier III Design Certified; Stream also describes an IEEE-certified six-nines design.

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