Colovore files for $430 million liquid-cooled data center in Fort Worth

Colovore has filed an application with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for Colovore Alliance, Data Center Dynamics reported—a single-story data center on vacant land at 14700 Heritage Parkway in Denton County, a Fort Worth project totaling 156,500 sq ft and $430 million, with construction scheduled from December 2026 to December 2028. The filing lists the landowner as AIL Investment LP, described in that coverage as a likely affiliate of Hillwood Properties. What it does not list is a megawatt count.

The value of the square footage will rest on what the racks inside can hold. At $430 million for 156,500 sq ft, the budget works out to roughly $2,750 a square foot, and Colovore has been selling liquid-cooled density since 2013, when 35kW racks counted as high density. Its first building, a 24,000 sq ft single-story facility in Santa Clara, opened in 2014; a second opened nearby in 2024.

King Street acquired the company in 2024, and plans for Nevada and Illinois followed; PID's records log a $280 million Colovore deal announced on September 4. The company's website lists two DFW projects with capacity figures attached—the 44.8MW DFW01 in Mesquite and the 32MW DFW02 in Fort Worth, 76.8MW between them—plus a data center planned for the Hutto area outside Austin. The coverage reports further projects around Virginia, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, California and Washington.

The Alliance filing as reported carries no megawatt figure, and the coverage does not say whether the Fort Worth project is DFW02 or sits alongside it. In a market where grid access and local consent have become the binding constraints on the buildout, as this publication has argued, square footage and a budget describe a site, while a capacity number and a power arrangement describe an asset. The filing is a state licensing application, not a local entitlement decision, which suggests the December 2026 start date is a target rather than a secured schedule.

The expansion list also runs through the jurisdictions where the rules have shifted: Virginia drew its aid line at 25MW and paired it with a disclosure ban, and California's seven new laws fold disclosure and cost-shifting into the permitting contract itself. Neither regime turns on how densely a rack is packed, and Colovore lists both states as future markets.

The filing pins down scale—156,500 sq ft on Denton County land, $430 million of construction, and a two-year window opening in December 2026. The tenant, the power contract and the megawatt count remain open, and the next document that matters is the local entitlement decision.