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Land Partners · Texas
Own land in Texas with power on site or contracted? GR1D develops AI data centers on powered land, with the landowner as a partner. Tell us about your site, and we'll tell you whether it fits and what comes next.
Power decides more than acreage: a substation, a utility load study or a signed service agreement is what makes land ready for a data center.
Any one of these puts a site in the first review.
What We Look For
We score every site on power first, then land, zoning, fiber and water. A parcel doesn't need all five on day one, but it needs a credible path to each.
On site or contracted: a substation or existing service, a utility load study, or a signed interconnection or supply agreement. Next best: a substation of 138 kV or higher one to three miles away.
Room for the buildings, a substation yard, setbacks and growth. Acres scale with megawatts: Texas campuses we track run from about 0.25 to 0.9 acres per MW.
Two physically diverse fiber paths to the site, or a credible route to build them.
A water source that suits closed-loop cooling: a will-serve letter or water rights, and the local groundwater district's rules.
Land where a data center is allowed by right, or unincorporated county land; outside the FEMA 100-year floodplain (and the 500-year in Houston); a clean environmental record.
The full checklist, with weights, data sources and pass/fail gates: AI data center site selection in Texas →
How It Starts
Five steps from your first message to signed terms. Then GR1D designs and builds: modular builds take 6–12 months once power is in place.
See where GR1D is building today on the sites page, and what a build involves in Build Your AI Factory.
Questions
Land with power on site or a contracted path to it: a substation or existing service, a utility load study, or a signed interconnection or supply agreement, plus room to build. It is the scarcest input for an AI data center, because new large-load power takes years to deliver in most US markets. The site-selection checklist →
Power on site or contracted is what GR1D looks for first. Land without it can still fit when a substation of 138 kV or higher is one to three miles away and the utility can serve the load; beyond about five miles, a site usually needs a dedicated line.
It scales with the megawatts and the design. Texas campuses we track run from about 0.25 to 0.9 acres per MW, and large AI campuses span 100 to 500-plus acres. Smaller modular sites need less, so tell us what you have: the power decides more than the acreage.
Either can work. GR1D agrees the structure with each landowner after the site review, from a long-term ground lease to a joint development or a purchase. We don't make offers before we have reviewed the power, the title and the site itself.
We check it against power, fiber, water, zoning and flood data, starting with public records and what you send. If it fits, we call you, walk the site and work with you and the utility on the documents that prove time to power. Nothing is binding until both sides sign.
More answers on the FAQ page.
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Get Started
Tell us where the land is, how big it is and what you know about power. We review every site we receive.
Prefer to talk it through? Book 30 minutes with the GR1D team.
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