Texas Cryptologic Center
Operating
Operating
The National Security Agency operates the Texas Cryptologic Center on 69.3 acres at 1 Sony Place, San Antonio, a former Sony fabrication plant converted for NSA use beginning in 2005; Corporate Office Properties Trust holds ownership. The facility comprises an original 470,000-square-foot complex, a 94,000-square-foot data-storage building completed June 2010, and three additional office buildings constructed 2009–2014, with a third-party report citing 40 MW operational capacity. The $500 million facility supports foreign signals intelligence, cybersecurity, and 24/7 security operations.
Former Sony chip-fabrication plant converted for NSA Texas use. The original complex consisted of two connected buildings totaling approximately 470,000 square feet.
A new data-storage complex was constructed on the former Sony plant grounds. The available reporting identifies approximately 94,000 square feet and completion by June 2010; this is not treated as a data-hall figure because the sources do not define it as data-hall area.
Three additional office buildings on an additional 26 acres at the broader site were reported as constructed between 2009 and 2014. They are kept as a separate phase and are not added to the 69.275-acre main-property figure.
| Capacity | Basis | Status | Scope | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 MW | Campus Gross Power | Operating | Exact Asset | — |
| A third-party data-center tracker reports the Texas Cryptologic Center as an operational 40 MW data center. This is a reported facility-capacity figure, not an identified utility-service, interconnection, contracted, energized, or critical-IT-load value. | ||||
Also reported as NSA Texas, NSA/CSS Texas Cryptologic Center (TCC), NSA Texas Cryptology Data Center.
Reports that NSA Texas operates in the former Sony fabrication plant and had more than 3,000 San Antonio workers during a major hiring effort.
Identifies the main NSA facility at 1 Sony Place, its ownership and lease arrangement, workforce, and reported economic significance to the San Antonio technology sector.
Reports that Corporate Office Properties Trust filed a major commercial construction permit for work at 1 Sony Place, which houses an NSA facility.
Reports that the first applications to begin work at the former Sony plant were filed with the City of San Antonio in May 2006.