Collin County, Texas

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

CoreWeave

Resi rate Δ (Oncor)

n/a

Home price Δ (3y)

-9.8%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+6.0%

Population (2024 ACS)

1.16M

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$121,600

Key takeaways

Collin County has 1,163,337 residents and a median household income of $121,600, the highest of any batch-4 county. JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Toyota North America, and PepsiCo all have their corporate footprint in Plano, the campus city.Source: Census ACS 2024 B01003, B19013 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Plano, TX)
Home prices fell 9.8% over three years against a median home value of $475,600, the steepest decline of any batch-4 county. CoreWeave's Plano site sits in a DFW housing market that is correcting after the 2021-2022 boom.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 48085) + Census ACS 2024 B25077
The 56.2% bachelor's-or-higher share is the highest in any batch-4 county and rivals Silicon Valley counties. Property tax assessments rose only 6.0% over three years, restrained by the price correction.Source: Census ACS 2024 B15003 + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 48085)
CoreWeave's Plano campus is on Oncor's ERCOT grid with no published residential rate delta because of retail deregulation. Plano is Texas's 9th most populous city, 73rd in the US, and the only batch-4 host city with five Fortune 500 HQs already in place.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (no Oncor residential row) + sources[0]

17.6% of Collin County residents are Asian, the highest Asian share of any batch-4 county and more than four times the Texas state average. Plano's tech-corporate base has built an Asian-American population near the size of San Francisco's.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001 (FIPS 48085)
96.1% of Collin households have broadband at home, the highest connectivity rate in batch 4. The CoreWeave Plano campus is landing in the most digitally connected county on the list.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (FIPS 48085)
Only 4.9% of Collin adults are veterans, the lowest veteran share of any major Texas metro in batch 4. The labor market is dominated by white-collar transplants, not military or oilfield service workers.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (FIPS 48085)
Just 6.3% of Collin residents live in poverty and 4.1% are unemployed, the lowest poverty rate in batch 4 outside Armstrong. Manufacturing employs 8.4% of workers, lifted by Texas Instruments and Toyota's North American plant footprint.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B23025, C24050 (FIPS 48085)