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Project Star Data Center Campus
Encinal, La Salle County, Texas · All 3 Related Digital sites · Every Related Digital case on our tracker
Project Star Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Encinal, Texas (La Salle County), operated by Related Digital. The public record puts it at announced September 30, 2026, 5 GW planned.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Related Digital
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Encinal, La Salle County, TX
- Coordinates
- 28.0406, -99.3552 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 5 GW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- September 30, 2026
- Utility
- Adjacent Project Star natural gas plant (6.47 GW), with excess plant output delivered to the grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- September 30, 2026ProposedRelated Digital named as developer of a 5 GW data center campus on a site adjacent to the Project Star power plant. Source: NextEra Energy Newsroom (PR Newswire)
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Star Data Center Campus in Encinal, La Salle County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Notes on the record
Announced Sept. 30, 2026 as a privately funded 5 GW campus on a site adjacent to the Project Star gas plant. The release names no tenant. The release gives no street, parcel or acreage; the pin is the Encinal village centroid. Lewis Energy's note to staff says Related Digital will develop the data centers that use the plant's power.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Cipher Reveille HPC Data Center · Cotulla · Cipher Digital28 mi · Proposed · 70 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Star Data Center Campus in Encinal?
Nothing on record as of October 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Star Data Center Campus in Encinal, La Salle County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Star Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over Project Star Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 26, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Project Star Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Star Data Center Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Project Star Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
Related Digital is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 5 GW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Star Data Center Campus," updated October 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/related-digital-project-star-encinal-la-salle-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/related-digital-project-star-encinal-la-salle-tx, retrieved October 29, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Project Star, a $22.3 billion energy infrastructure campus in Encinal, Texas (joint press release, Sept. 30, 2026) · NextEra Energy Newsroom (PR Newswire) · retrieved October 26, 2026
- 2.U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Republic of Korea announce Project Star · Related Digital · retrieved October 26, 2026
- 3."I want a seat at the table" (La Salle County Judge on Project Star) · Frio-Nueces Current · retrieved October 26, 2026
- 4.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode, Encinal village centroid · OpenStreetMap · retrieved October 26, 2026
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