The disclosure and our analysis
Evidence dates
Evidence: TDLR Texas Architectural Barriers project registration TABS2027004544, created October 27, 2026, status Project Registered. Read November 1, 2026.
What the state filing shows
1. **Project:** The registration is titled Clocktower NWB 05, with the facility named Building 5, Network. Its scope reads: new construction of a single story data center with an office component, a pre-engineered metal building with an insulated metal panel skin, 288,355 square feet. [Source 1]
2. **Location:** 4628 Four Corners Road, Quanah, Texas 79252, Hardeman County. [Source 1]
3. **Cost and dates:** Estimated cost of $8,000,000,000. Start date November 1, 2026 and completion date December 31, 2028, as listed. Type of work is new construction, privately funded on private land. [Source 1]
4. **Parties:** Owner 19000-200 Holdings, LLC, 17000 Dallas Parkway, Suite 200, Dallas. Design firm JHET Architects of Dallas. Tenant: not assigned. The filing says the private funds are not provided by a tenant. [Source 1]
How to read the filing
TDLR registrations are filed for state accessibility review. They are not building permits and do not establish that construction has started. The estimated cost and dates are entered by the filer.
The $8 billion estimate is far larger than a single 288,355 square foot shell would usually carry. For comparison, a TDLR registration we covered for Skybox Hutto 4 near Austin listed $550 million for about 846,300 square feet of core and shell. The Quanah filing does not say whether its figure covers equipment, other buildings, power infrastructure or a wider campus. We report it as filed and do not treat it as the cost of this building.
The name Building 5 suggests other buildings may be planned. A search of TDLR records on November 1, 2026 by project name, owner and address returned only this registration.
Status
On our status vocabulary, as of October 27, 2026: Proposed. A state accessibility registration is on file with listed construction from November 2026 to December 2028. The reviewed record does not establish local approvals, construction, a power supply, energization or capacity Available to tenants.
Buyer analysis
This is our analysis. The filing gives square footage, dates and a cost figure, not megawatts, so it says nothing yet about how much IT load the site could carry or on what power basis. The location is rural north Texas, near the Oklahoma border, outside the markets we currently track.
For buyers, an unassigned tenant field two years before listed completion can mean a speculative or not yet announced project. The questions to ask the developer are who stands behind the owner entity, what utility or on-site generation would serve the site and when, how many buildings are planned, and what the $8 billion figure covers.
