Amazon Web Services has filed [1-2-3-4] plans with Texas state regulators for a major new data center campus in Boling, Wharton County, southwest of Houston, marking the company's latest expansion move in a state where it has been aggressively acquiring land and filing construction permits across multiple regions.

Project Eagle Takes Shape in Wharton County

The development, filed under the name "Project Eagle" through Amazon Data Services, was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

The campus will consist of four data center buildings situated on approximately 2,700 acres near the intersection of FM 1301 and FM 442, with specific addresses listed as 240, 244, and 258 Eaglewood Road in Boling.

Each of the four buildings has been filed for separately with the TDLR, though all four are identical in scope. Each structure will measure 189,060 square feet, or roughly 17,565 square meters, and will carry an individual investment value of USD 300 million.

With all four buildings combined, the total capital commitment for the campus reaches USD 1.2 billion. The filings were first reported by the Wharton Post.

Construction Timeline Runs From Mid-2026 Into Late 2027

Construction on all four buildings is scheduled to begin on August 1, 2026.

The first three buildings are expected to reach completion at the start of January 2027, representing a construction window of roughly five months per structure.

The fourth and final building carries a later completion date of August 2027, extending the overall campus buildout to just over a year from groundbreaking.

The compressed timelines for the initial three buildings reflect the pace at which hyperscale operators have been pushing construction schedules to meet surging demand for cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Wharton County Is Largely Untapped Territory for Data Centers

Wharton County sits southwest of Houston, which is recognized as Texas' third-largest data center market. Despite its proximity to that established market, the county itself has seen little prior interest from data center developers, making the Project Eagle campus a significant early footprint in the area.

The scale of the land acquisition, at approximately 2,700 acres, suggests AWS is positioning the Boling site for potential long-term expansion beyond the initial four buildings, though the current filings cover only the four structures described in the TDLR applications.

Texas Expansion Extends Across Multiple Counties and Markets

The Wharton County filing adds to a rapidly expanding portfolio of AWS development activity across Texas. In May 2026, the company acquired 1,300 acres near Cedar Creek in Bastrop County, located off State Highway 21 West, approximately 30 miles southeast of Austin.

That acquisition was identified as a potential data center campus site, though no construction filings tied to it have been detailed in the current reporting.

AWS also maintains an existing footprint in San Antonio and previously filed plans to develop a campus in DeSoto, which is located outside of Dallas.

Earlier in 2026, the company filed to potentially develop a large campus adjacent to Vistra's Comanche nuclear plant outside Fort Worth, a move that would place a major data center load directly beside a dedicated power generation source.

The breadth of these filings and acquisitions points to AWS treating Texas as one of its primary domestic growth corridors, spreading activity across the Houston, Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth metropolitan regions as well as into less developed counties in between.

Four Uniform Buildings Form the Core of the Campus

The decision to file each of the four Project Eagle buildings as separate, identical projects with the TDLR is consistent with how hyperscale operators often phase large campus developments for regulatory and financing purposes.

By structuring each 189,060-square-foot building as a discrete filing, the company retains flexibility over scheduling and can adjust timelines for individual structures without altering the broader campus plan.

At USD 300 million per building, the per-square-foot investment works out to approximately USD 1,587, a figure reflective of the high-density power and cooling infrastructure required to support modern cloud and AI workloads.

The Boling campus will be built on land that spans the area between FM 1301 and FM 442, a rural stretch in Wharton County where large contiguous land parcels remain available at a scale that is increasingly difficult to assemble closer to established urban data center corridors.