CloudBurst San Marcos AI Data Center

CloudBurst San Marcos Data Center I is now a source-backed AI data-center construction lead in the New Braunfels / San Marcos corridor. The public trail is stronger than a generic market rumor: CloudBurst and Evolve announced the groundbreaking, CloudBurst has a dedicated Texas Flagship project page, Guadalupe County public records show development and tax-abatement action with CloudBurst Texas LLC, and public deal coverage ties Energy Transfer to behind-the-meter gas supply for the campus.

The scale is the reason this belongs in LVN's data-center pipeline. CloudBurst and Evolve describe San Marcos Data Center I as the first move in a Central Texas AI/HPC campus master-planned for up to 1.2 GW. The first 50 MW phase is targeted for Q4 2026. CloudBurst's Texas Flagship page reinforces the high-density AI/HPC positioning, behind-the-meter power model, N+1 redundancy, low-latency Texas location, and seven nearby fiber providers. That combination makes this more than a building announcement. It is a power, fiber, security, controls, and commissioning account map.

The project also has a local-government record. Guadalupe County's April 21, 2026 Commissioners Court agenda listed a development agreement and a tax-abatement agreement between Guadalupe County and CloudBurst Texas LLC. The approved minutes show the CloudBurst presentation and votes approving the agreements. A public CloudBurst / Guadalupe County presentation describes a much larger planned campus: 706.40 acres, 10 to 12 AI-ready buildings, roughly 3 million square feet, a reported $14.5 billion investment plan, and 480 permanent jobs by year six.

Item	Public evidence	LVN read
Project	San Marcos Data Center I / CloudBurst Texas Flagship	First phase of a large AI/HPC campus in Central Texas.
Location	New Braunfels / San Marcos corridor, 2955 Francis Harris Lane context	Specific enough for county, permit, utility, and contractor monitoring.
Capacity	Up to 1.2 GW campus; first 50 MW phase targeted for Q4 2026	Scale supports major fiber, security, controls, life-safety, and commissioning scope.
Campus size	706.40 acres, 10 to 12 buildings, about 3M sq ft in public presentation	Large phased build with multiple package and vendor entry points.
Workforce	480 permanent jobs by year six, plus construction and technical roles	Local vendor and trade readiness will matter as phases move.

The named-company layer is useful, but it has limits. CloudBurst is the developer/operator and CloudBurst Texas LLC is the local project entity in the county agreement trail. Evolve is the named design-build partner in the official announcement. eVOLVE Data Center Solutions is source-backed as the critical-infrastructure delivery arm. Jackson Walker documents the CloudBurst / Energy Transfer gas-supply agreement, including Oasis Pipeline supply for direct behind-the-meter power. Guadalupe County is the clearest public-record jurisdiction. Hays County appears in site-context evidence, but the reviewed sources do not make it the primary approval body for the agreement trail.

Company	Source-backed role	Evidence
CloudBurst Data Centers	Developer / operator	Official release and Texas Flagship project page.
CloudBurst Texas LLC	Agreement and abatement counterparty	Guadalupe County agenda and minutes.
Evolve Holdings	Design-build partner	CloudBurst / Evolve groundbreaking release.
eVOLVE Data Center Solutions	Critical-infrastructure delivery partner	CloudBurst / Evolve release context.
Energy Transfer LP	Behind-the-meter gas and power supply partner	Jackson Walker deal note and project context.
Guadalupe County	Development agreement and abatement jurisdiction	Agenda, minutes, and presentation trail.

That table should not be stretched into claims the sources do not support. The reviewed public evidence does not name the electrical contractor, low-voltage contractor, fiber/OSP contractor, security integrator, fire alarm contractor, BAS/BMS controls partner, DAS provider, network integrator, grounding contractor, or commissioning agent. Evolve's design-build role is real, but specialty package names are still public gaps. That is the opportunity window for Signal: identify the source-backed project family before the trade names become common knowledge.

The power story is central to the low-voltage story. A 1.2 GW AI/HPC campus with behind-the-meter generation needs more than utility service language. It usually creates parallel workstreams around substations, power generation, fuel supply, cooling, carrier entrances, site security, emergency response, monitoring, and turnover sequencing. The public CloudBurst / Guadalupe County presentation describes behind-the-meter generation and low-water closed-loop cooling context. Baxtel's CloudBurst San Marcos Campus profile is useful as a secondary tracker for address and campus-family naming, while Baxtel's approval coverage helps preserve the county-approval and acreage context.

Scope	Where it shows up	Evidence boundary
Fiber / OSP	Carrier entrances, diverse routes, duct banks, vaults, backbone paths, and test records.	CloudBurst names seven fiber providers nearby; contractor names are not public.
Structured cabling	Data-hall pathways, cable tray, labeling, telecom spaces, and turnover documentation.	Expected for AI/HPC data halls; installer names are not confirmed.
Access control / CCTV	Perimeter, gates, secure entries, data halls, yards, loading areas, and VMS integration.	Mission-critical requirement; integrator not public.
Fire alarm / life safety	Alarm interfaces, suppression coordination, monitoring, inspections, and AHJ acceptance.	Scope likely, but device package and contractor are not named.
BAS/BMS / networking	Cooling plant monitoring, power alarms, facility networks, OT boundaries, and commissioning scripts.	Controls and network package names remain unknown.
DAS / grounding	Public-safety coverage, in-building wireless, telecom bonding, rack/pathway grounding, and final QA.	Watch permit, inspection, and commissioning evidence.

The jobs and skills angle is practical. Data-center projects reward crews that can work cleanly around electrical and mechanical trades, meet safety and access requirements, keep pathway and labeling discipline, produce test records, and support commissioning without creating rework. Fiber teams should be ready for cleaning, OTDR and power-meter testing, structured labeling, as-builts, and carrier coordination. Security teams should expect access-control hardware, camera placement, network segmentation, device schedules, and VMS handoff. Fire alarm teams should expect suppression interfaces, AHJ sequencing, monitoring, inspection records, and clean documentation. BAS/BMS and network teams should expect alarms, trend logs, OT coordination, commissioning scripts, and turnover packages.

For technicians moving toward this market, useful training references include BICSI Installer 2, Optical Fiber, BICSI Installer 2, Copper, FOA workforce fiber resources, and OSHA outreach training. Credentials alone do not win a mission-critical site. The habits behind them do: safety, repeatable quality, clean documentation, testing discipline, and fast correction when commissioning exposes a problem.

Near-term monitoring should stay concrete. Search for CloudBurst San Marcos, San Marcos Data Center I, CloudBurst Texas Flagship, CloudBurst GigaCenter, CloudBurst Texas LLC, 2955 Francis Harris Lane, Francis Harris Lane data center, New Braunfels data center, Guadalupe County data center, and Energy Transfer CloudBurst. Watch Guadalupe County and Hays County records, TDLR/TABS, local permits, utility and interconnection references, Energy Transfer updates, Evolve project pages, CloudBurst updates, and job postings that name packages or subcontractors. Keep this separate from Sabey / Highlander at 904 Francis Harris Lane, Prime Lockhart, PowerHouse Uhland, Tract Caldwell Valley, EdgeConneX Bastrop, OpenAI Freebird, and other Central Texas AI data-center builds.

For contractors and vendors, the takeaway is to build the account map now. The confirmed facts already point to a major AI/HPC campus with power, fiber, county approval, and a named design-build partner. The missing layer is the specialty contractor list. LVN Signal is tracking the project family, company roles, low-voltage systems, jobs and skills, and public evidence while the opportunity is still forming.