About DataCenterJobSites.com

DataCenterJobSites.com tracks data center construction projects in the United States: who owns and develops them, which contractors and design firms build them, and which unions are involved.

Methodology

Every record comes from public sources: news reports, company press releases and government filings. Each project page lists the sources behind it. Values not found in the sources are left blank, never estimated.

Texas projects are imported from public building-project registrations with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). These filings include the estimated cost, square footage, schedule, owner and design firm.

Coordinates are approximate. When an address can be geocoded the pin is placed there; otherwise it is placed at the city or county centroid.

How to read union status

Project labor agreement: a project labor agreement (PLA) covering the project was announced.
Union pledge: the owner or developer publicly committed to work with building trades unions.
Union labor reported: a source reports union labor on the project, but no agreement was found.
Publicly supports: a union or trades council publicly backed the project (for example at a public hearing). This is a public position, not an agreement.
Labor dispute or demands: a union protested, picketed or demanded local or union hiring on the project.
Jurisdiction: the local of each trade whose published territory covers the county where the project is. It shows who to contact for that trade; it does not mean the union works on the project.

Each union is tagged with the trade it represents (electricians, plumbers and pipefitters, ironworkers, and so on); building trades councils represent multiple trades.

“No union agreement found” means that no agreement was found in the sources reviewed. It does not mean the site is non-union.

Prevailing wages

Project pages list the minimum hourly pay by trade that the U.S. Department of Labor publishes for federally funded building work in the project's county (Davis-Bacon general wage determinations on SAM.gov). For each trade and union local we show one journeyman building rate; apprentice, residential, line-construction, overtime and premium lines are left out. Union rates name the local whose agreement sets them; non-union survey rates can be many years old and are marked when older than five years. These are legal minimums for government-funded work, not what any data center project pays, and per diem is not included. Apprentices: rates above are for journeymen. Apprentices are usually paid a percentage of the journeyman rate, typically starting around 40–60% and rising about 10 percentage points every 6 months to a year until they reach the full rate. Exact steps vary by trade and local.

Per diem

Some project pages show per diem reported for the area, collected from public job posts, union job boards and worker posts. We show a range only when an area has at least 3 reports, and we list every report behind it. These amounts are reports, not guarantees.

Data sources

News coverage and company announcements, linked on each project page.
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) building-project registrations. tdlr.texas.gov/TABS

Updates

The site is rebuilt from the database when new data is imported. The data was last updated on Nov 6, 2026.

Corrections

Found an error or missing information? Report it with our corrections form and include a public source (a link) if you can. We review every report.

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