Haskell County, Texas

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Google

Resi rate Δ (AEP Texas)

n/a

Home price Δ (3y)

n/a

Property tax Δ (3y)

+26.3%

Population (2024 ACS)

5,421

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$60,653

Key takeaways

Haskell County has 5,421 residents and remained 23% below the poverty line in the 2000 census. Google announced two Haskell campuses as part of a $40 billion Texas package, with one site to be co-located with a new solar plus battery storage plant.Source: Census ACS 2024 B01003 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Haskell County, TX) + sources[1] (Google: American Innovation Texas)
Property tax assessments jumped 26.3% over three years, the steepest jump in any batch-4 county and the steepest of any disclosed slot on the powertracker map. Land speculation around the Google announcement appears to be the explicit driver.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 48207)
Median household income is $60,653 and median home value is $98,700, with the county on AEP Texas inside ERCOT and no published 3-year residential rate delta. Google has secured more than 6,200 MW of new Texas generation through PPAs to cover its package.Source: Census ACS 2024 B19013, B25077 + data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (no AEP Texas residential row) + sources[1]
Haskell is the only batch-4 county where a hyperscaler campus is explicitly being built next to its own dedicated solar plus battery facility. Google plans 1,700 new electrical apprentices statewide by 2030 to staff the buildout.Source: sources[1] (Google: American Innovation Texas)

74.1% of Haskell County households own their home, far above the Texas state baseline. Median gross rent is $824 on a rental stock of fewer than 600 units, leaving any incoming Google construction workforce without an in-county housing supply.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003, B25064 (FIPS 48207)
26.0% of Haskell residents are Hispanic and only 1.9% of the labor force is in manufacturing, the lowest mfg share of any Texas county in batch 4. Cotton and wheat farming have been the labor baseline for a century.Source: Census ACS 2023 B03003, C24050 (FIPS 48207)
Just 84.2% of Haskell households have broadband at home and 6.6% of adults are veterans. The Google solar-plus-battery co-located build is the first industrial-scale infrastructure investment in the county in decades.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002, B21001 (FIPS 48207)
14.2% of Haskell residents live in poverty and 5.4% are unemployed, on a population of 5,390. The county would have to double its workforce to staff a 1 GW data-center campus, an option the demographics do not currently support.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, B23025, B01003 (FIPS 48207)