Data center construction is moving fast.

But knowing that another $1 billion campus was announced isn't enough if you're a contractor trying to win work.

You need to know:

Who is building it?

Where is the project in the construction cycle?

Which contractors already have work?

How do you get into the procurement chain?

And most importantly: what should you do next?

That's what Data Center Contractor Report is built to track.

Every issue follows the money from:

Owner → Developer → GC/CM → Trade Partners → Procurement Path → Contractor Opportunity

Welcome to Issue 001.

Here's what we're watching right now.

LOUISIANA: Meta's Hyperion campus represents one of the clearest major contractor opportunities in the country. DPR Construction, Turner Construction and Mortenson are publicly involved, procurement routes exist, and another 10 buildings are planned in Phase 2.

INDIANA: Meta's $10B+ Lebanon campus is under construction with Turner, Mortenson and Faith Technologies among the identified construction partners.

WISCONSIN: Microsoft's Mount Pleasant buildout continues through 2028, with Walsh Construction and Kiewit providing identifiable routes into the construction ecosystem.

TEXAS: Multiple projects are advancing across Lancaster, Fort Worth, Red Oak, Wilmer and Hutto. Several have known construction partners. Others still have major contractor assignments unresolved.

THE BIG OPPORTUNITY: Colovore's $280 million AUS01 development in Hutto is scheduled to begin construction in December, but its GC and major trade contractors remain publicly unresolved.

That is precisely the type of information gap DCCR intends to track.

These aren't simply eight data center stories.

They're eight projects where contractors, suppliers and service providers should be paying attention to the construction chain.

Richland Parish, Louisiana

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 96/100

Bid Window: 🟡 PROCUREMENT ACTIVE

Owner: Meta
Investment: More than $50 billion anticipated regional investment
Planned Capacity: 5 GW
Scale: Nearly 10 million sq. ft. following expansion
Stage: Active construction / expansion
General Contractors: DPR Construction | Turner Construction | Mortenson
Peak Construction Workforce: Approximately 7,500

Meta is expanding its Richland Parish campus into its largest data center development. Hyperion is planned as a multi-gigawatt AI training cluster with approximately 5 GW of capacity.

Phase 2 is especially important for contractors.

Turner and Mortenson have been selected for a phase planned to include another 10 data center buildings totaling approximately 5.5 million square feet. Preconstruction is expected to continue through June 2027 before building construction begins.

✅ VERIFIED — DPR Construction

DPR's published scope includes approximately 2 million square feet of data space, including a network data center building, four support-services buildings, modular electrical rooms and central utility infrastructure.

✅ VERIFIED — Turner Construction

Turner is participating in the campus buildout and has been selected with Mortenson for Phase 2.

✅ VERIFIED — Mortenson

Mortenson's published work includes site preparation and grading, underground utilities, medium-voltage distribution, substations, water and wastewater infrastructure, administration and guard buildings, and outside-plant fiber distribution.

This is one of the strongest procurement situations DCCR is currently tracking.

DPR maintains a Richland Parish trade-partner registration process.

Turner provides a project-specific registration pathway and says procurement activities are underway.

Mortenson maintains a project-specific trade-partner process covering multiple construction categories.

Source Louisiana is also being used as a platform for subcontracting opportunities associated with the development.

Civil & Sitework | Underground Utilities | Concrete | Electrical | Medium Voltage | Substations | Mechanical | HVAC | Plumbing & Piping | Fiber | Roofing | Heavy Equipment | Erosion Control | Construction Support

Don't wait for Phase 2 construction to begin.

Contractors interested in Richland Parish should enter the DPR, Turner and Mortenson procurement ecosystems now and monitor Phase 2 packages as preconstruction progresses.

DCCR TAKE: HIGH PRIORITY — ACTIVE PROCUREMENT

Lebanon, Indiana

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 91/100

Bid Window: 🟡 PROCUREMENT / ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION

Owner: Meta
Investment: $10B+
Planned Capacity: 1 GW
Campus Size: Approximately 4 million sq. ft.
Stage: Construction
Verified Contractors: Turner Construction | Mortenson | Faith Technologies
Peak Construction Workforce: 4,000+

Meta's massive AI-optimized Lebanon campus is now under construction.

At more than $10 billion, 1 GW and approximately four million square feet, this is a multi-year construction program rather than a single-building opportunity.

✅ VERIFIED — Turner Construction

Turner is one of the construction partners delivering the campus.

✅ VERIFIED — Mortenson

Meta publicly identifies Mortenson as a project partner.

✅ VERIFIED — Faith Technologies

Faith Technologies is also publicly identified, creating an important signal for contractors and suppliers operating within the electrical and mission-critical ecosystem.

Meta directs companies interested in construction opportunities toward the project's general contractors.

Turner's subcontractor prequalification system currently provides one of the clearest public entry points.

Electrical | Mechanical | Liquid Cooling | Controls | Fire Protection | Utilities | Concrete | Fiber | Security | Equipment | Construction Support

Get prequalified before waiting for a specific package.

Contractors targeting Lebanon should establish themselves with the known construction partners while the campus remains in active buildout.

DCCR TAKE: HIGH PRIORITY — PROCUREMENT PATH DEVELOPING

TURNER SUBCONTRACTOR PREQUALIFICATION

Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 92/100

Bid Window: 🟡 ACTIVE

Owner: Microsoft
Stage: Phase 2 construction
Verified Contractors: Walsh Construction | Kiewit
Phase 2 Completion: Expected 2028

Microsoft's first Mount Pleasant facility became operational in June 2026, but that does not mean the construction opportunity is over.

Work continues immediately adjacent to it on the second facility.

Current Phase 2 work includes site expansion, foundations, steel erection and underground utilities.

✅ VERIFIED — Walsh Construction

Walsh is actively working on Phase 2.

✅ VERIFIED — Kiewit

Microsoft has also publicly identified Kiewit as a general contractor involved with the Mount Pleasant campus.

This project has an unusually clear public route for contractors.

Microsoft specifically directs companies interested in Walsh subcontracting opportunities to:

[email protected]

Walsh also provides the project contact [email protected] for construction inquiries. Kiewit has previously provided [email protected] for project inquiries and a separate business-inquiry channel for its work at the campus.

Foundations | Structural Steel | Underground Utilities | Electrical | Mechanical | Controls | Equipment | Logistics | Construction Support

Companies pursuing Wisconsin data center work should use the existing contractor inquiry routes rather than attempting to approach Microsoft cold.

DCCR TAKE: HIGH PRIORITY — HIGH PROCUREMENT VISIBILITY

Stafford, Virginia

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 89/100

Bid Window: 🟡 POSITION / ACTIVE

Owner: STACK Infrastructure
Planned Capacity: Approximately 1.1 GW
Verified Construction Partner: Clayco
Verified Specialty Contractor: Schnabel

STACK's Stafford development is a massive multi-phase data center campus.

Clayco is a verified construction partner, while Schnabel has performed specialty foundation and stability work associated with the development.

The important contractor signal is scale.

A campus approaching 1.1 GW creates a long construction runway across multiple phases rather than one short bid cycle.

Clayco maintains public subcontractor/vendor prequalification and bidding pathways.

Civil | Utilities | Foundations | Concrete | Structural | Electrical | Mechanical | Site Infrastructure | Construction Support

Get into Clayco's subcontractor ecosystem.

Contractors shouldn't wait for individual Stafford bid announcements before completing prequalification and monitoring Clayco's plan room.

DCCR TAKE: HIGH PRIORITY — KNOWN GC ECOSYSTEM

Lancaster, Texas

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 88/100

Bid Window: 🟢 POSITION NOW

Owner: QTS
Investment: $290 million
Size: Approximately 363,500 sq. ft.
Design: Corgan
Construction Window: September 2026–December 2027
General Contractor: ❓ UNRESOLVED

A Texas filing shows construction scheduled for a new two-story shell data hall and office building at QTS's DFW2 campus.

Here's what makes DC7 particularly interesting:

The GC remains publicly unresolved.

Structure Tone Southwest is confirmed elsewhere on QTS's DFW2 campus, including DC2, but DCCR has not verified Structure Tone as the contractor for DC7.

We will not treat an existing relationship as a project award until we can verify it.

Civil | Concrete | Structural | Electrical | Mechanical | Cooling | Controls | Fire Protection | Low Voltage | Security | Fit-Out

Track the GC assignment.

This is the stage where contractors should monitor QTS, Corgan, state filings and the existing DFW2 construction ecosystem before downstream packages become obvious.

DCCR TAKE: EARLY POSITIONING — GC UNRESOLVED

Fort Worth, Texas

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 86/100

Bid Window: 🟡 ACTIVE

Owner: QTS
Investment: $300 million
Size: 147,946 sq. ft.
Design: Corgan
Construction Partner: Adolfson & Peterson
Construction: Scheduled through October 2027

The current filing covers expansion of a two-story data center and equipment yard.

Unlike DFW2-DC7, the construction-partner relationship here is visible.

✅ VERIFIED — Adolfson & Peterson

That gives specialty contractors a defined construction ecosystem to monitor.

Electrical | Mechanical | Controls | Cooling | Fire Protection | Commissioning | Equipment | Construction Support

Companies pursuing the project should investigate Adolfson & Peterson's subcontractor/prequalification ecosystem and monitor the project as construction advances into additional systems and fit-out work.

DCCR TAKE: ACTIVE — KNOWN CONSTRUCTION PARTNER

Red Oak, Texas

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 90/100

Bid Window: 🟡 MULTI-PHASE OPPORTUNITY

Owner: DataBank
Campus: 292 acres
Full Buildout: Eight planned data centers / up to 480 MW
Known Construction Relationships: Rogers-O'Brien | Yates

DataBank's Red Oak development is becoming one of South Dallas's significant data center clusters.

The company secured approximately $2 billion in construction financing for its first three facilities, totaling roughly 600,000 square feet and 180 MW.

The pipeline continues.

A $325 million DFW13 project is scheduled through 2027, while another $325 million DFW14 filing appeared in August.

Eight planned facilities mean contractors should evaluate Red Oak as a campus relationship opportunity, not simply pursue one building.

Winning work or establishing relationships during earlier buildings can create positioning for subsequent phases.

Monitor DataBank's established Texas construction partners and new building filings for additional trade-package and tenant fit-out activity.

DCCR TAKE: HIGH PRIORITY — LONG-RUNWAY CAMPUS

Wilmer, Texas

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 87/100

Bid Window: 🟡 ACTIVE

Owner: Stream Data Centers
Investment: $300 million
Capacity: 48 MW
Size: 360,750 sq. ft.
Construction Partner: Holder Construction
Design: Gensler
Construction: Scheduled through October 2027

DFWC1 includes a two-story data center, substation and campus entrance.

The major advantage for contractors is visibility.

Holder Construction is publicly tied to the project.

That provides a defined trade-partner ecosystem rather than forcing contractors to determine who controls construction procurement.

MEP | Controls | Low Voltage | Commissioning | Concrete | Steel | Fire & Security | Site Infrastructure | Construction Support

Contractors interested in Stream's Wilmer campus should pursue Holder's trade-partner/prequalification route and monitor progression into downstream MEP and fit-out packages.

DCCR TAKE: ACTIVE — CLEAR CONTRACTOR ROUTE

These did not make this week's eight primary leads, but both deserve continued monitoring.

$280M | 40 MW | 192,694 sq. ft. | Construction targeted December 2026

Architect: Ci Design
GC: ❓ UNRESOLVED

This project's approaching construction date combined with an unresolved GC makes it our Opportunity of the Week. Full intelligence below.

Stage: Ongoing campus construction

Known Contractors: Shambaugh & Son | Hi-Tech Electric | Hagerman Group | Brooks Construction

Google's Fort Wayne development has already brought several Indiana contractors into the data center construction ecosystem.

Next Move: Specialty contractors should monitor the established contractor network for downstream opportunities rather than approaching Google cold.

DCCR OPPORTUNITY SCORE: 93/100

Bid Window: 🟢 POSITION NOW

DCCR Signal: EARLY OPPORTUNITY

Owner: Colovore Austin 1, LLC
Location: 2401 Innovation Boulevard, Hutto, Texas
Estimated Cost: $280 million
Size: 192,694 sq. ft.
Capacity: 40 MW
Construction Start: December 2026
Target Completion: December 2028
Architect: Ci Design
General Contractor: ❓ UNRESOLVED
Electrical Contractor: ❓ UNRESOLVED
Mechanical Contractor: ❓ UNRESOLVED
Civil Contractor: ❓ UNRESOLVED

A recently registered Texas project gives contractors an early look at Colovore's AUS01 development in Hutto, north of Austin.

The filing describes a privately funded, $280 million data center scheduled to begin construction December 1, 2026.

Colovore describes AUS01 as a 40 MW high-density, liquid-cooled facility designed for AI infrastructure, with five 8 MW data halls and support for extremely high rack densities.

The project is real.

The investment is disclosed.

The architect is identified.

The construction window is approaching.

But the major construction chain is not yet publicly transparent.

The current filing identifies Colovore Austin 1, LLC as owner and Ci Design as designer, but does not identify a general contractor.

For contractors, that information gap is exactly what makes AUS01 interesting now, rather than after every major award becomes common knowledge.

Civil & Sitework | Concrete & Foundations | Electrical & Power | Mechanical & Liquid Cooling | Controls & BMS | Fire Protection | Fiber & Low Voltage | Security | Equipment & Logistics | Construction Support Services

Important: These are opportunity areas DCCR is monitoring. They are not confirmed open bid packages.

Colovore Austin 1, LLC — Owner
✅ VERIFIED

Ci Design — Architect
✅ VERIFIED

Ben Standish — Owner Contact Listed on State Filing
✅ VERIFIED

General Contractor
❓ UNRESOLVED

Major Trade Contractors
❓ UNRESOLVED

The state filing lists Ben Standish as Colovore's owner contact. DCCR has not verified that he controls subcontractor procurement, so we do not characterize him as a bid contact.

Position before the GC becomes obvious.

Contractors interested in AUS01 should monitor Colovore, Ci Design, Texas project filings and Hutto-area development activity for the GC/CM assignment and subsequent trade-partner procurement.

The moment the GC becomes identifiable, the route into this project may become much clearer.

EARLY OPPORTUNITY — LOW PROCUREMENT VISIBILITY — HIGH POSITIONING VALUE

AUS01 represents exactly what DCCR wants to uncover:

Real projects where contractors may still have time to get in front of the construction chain.

The projects get the headlines.

But contractors need to know who is actually getting the contracts.

Here are four relationships we're tracking.

✅ VERIFIED

Clayco is a construction partner on STACK Infrastructure's massive Stafford, Virginia campus.

Specialty contractor Schnabel has also performed foundation and stability work associated with retaining-wall systems.

CONTRACTOR MOVE: Clayco maintains subcontractor/vendor prequalification and bidding pathways. Companies interested in Stafford should get into that ecosystem before waiting for a particular package.

✅ VERIFIED

Adolfson & Peterson is tied to QTS's $300 million FTW1 DC1 expansion.

CONTRACTOR MOVE: Monitor A&P for electrical, mechanical, controls, cooling, fire-protection and commissioning opportunities as construction progresses.

✅ VERIFIED

Holder Construction has been publicly tied to Stream Data Centers' Wilmer development.

CONTRACTOR MOVE: Holder's established trade-partner program provides a logical entry point for companies pursuing this project.

◐ RELATIONSHIP SIGNAL

Structure Tone Southwest is confirmed working on QTS DFW2 DC2.

The broader QTS South Dallas campus continues expanding.

But here's the distinction:

DCCR has NOT verified Structure Tone as the contractor for DFW2-DC7.

DC7 is a separate $290 million project scheduled from September 2026 through December 2027.

An existing owner/contractor relationship is a valuable signal.

It is not the same thing as a verified project award.

We're going to be careful about the difference between intelligence and speculation.

✅ VERIFIED

Supported by direct or credible public evidence.

◐ RELATIONSHIP SIGNAL

A contractor relationship is established, but the exact project or package assignment has not been confirmed.

❓ UNRESOLVED

The contractor, package or procurement relationship has not yet been verified.

We distinguish what we know from what we're still investigating.

That standard matters because contractors make real business-development decisions with this information.

If your business-development team is prospecting data center work this week, here's where we'd focus.

Meta Hyperion

Get registered with the known construction partners and monitor Phase 2. DPR, Turner and Mortenson provide unusually visible procurement pathways.

Colovore AUS01

Position early. GC and major trades remain unresolved.

QTS DFW2-DC7

Track the GC assignment. Don't assume an existing QTS contractor automatically has DC7.

Stream Wilmer

Enter Holder Construction's trade-partner ecosystem.

QTS Fort Worth

Monitor Adolfson & Peterson's subcontracting network.

DataBank Red Oak

Think campus, not building. Multiple facilities remain in the pipeline.

Meta Lebanon

Prequalify with known construction partners while the multi-year campus buildout continues.

Microsoft Mount Pleasant

Use the established Walsh/Kiewit construction pathways while Phase 2 remains active.

STACK Stafford

Get into Clayco's subcontractor ecosystem and monitor future campus phases.

Not every project becomes actionable the day it is announced.

DCCR will continuously move projects through the following pipeline:

LAND / POWER → PLANNING → PRECONSTRUCTION → PROCUREMENT → ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION → FIT-OUT → OPERATIONS

We're particularly interested in projects sitting between:

PLANNING → PRECONSTRUCTION → PROCUREMENT

because that's where early positioning can matter most.

Projects we're actively investigating include newly announced U.S. campuses, expansions, power commitments, construction filings, GC appointments and contractor hiring signals.

When a project becomes actionable enough to justify contractor attention, we'll move it onto the Lead Board.

A huge project isn't automatically a great contractor lead.

DCCR's Opportunity Score considers:

25% — Remaining Contract Opportunity

How much work may still be available?

20% — Procurement Timing

Can contractors still realistically position themselves?

15% — Project Certainty

Is the project financed, permitted, contracted or otherwise advancing?

15% — Accessibility

Is there an identifiable path into the construction ecosystem?

10% — Project Scale

How significant is the overall construction opportunity?

10% — Procurement Intelligence

How much useful information can DCCR verify about who controls the work?

5% — Recency

Has something material happened that creates a new opportunity?

A $10 billion project where virtually every package has been awarded can therefore rank below a $300 million development entering preconstruction.

We score contractor opportunity, not headline size.

There are already excellent publications covering the data center industry.

We're not trying to duplicate them.

Our job is different.

We want to answer the questions a contractor asks after reading that another data center has been announced:

Who's building it?

Who already has work?

What's still unresolved?

Where is procurement happening?

What should I do next?

Over time, DCCR is building a map connecting:

PROJECT → OWNER → DEVELOPER → GC → PROCUREMENT → TRADE PARTNERS → BID WINDOW → CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY

That's the intelligence layer we're after.

Data Center Contractor Report is new.

And I want to build it around what contractors, suppliers and service providers actually need to win business.

If you work in the industry, I'd like to know three things:

1. What type of work does your company perform?

2. What states or markets do you cover?

3. What information would make DCCR valuable enough that you would open it every week?

Reply and tell me.

I'm especially interested in hearing from electrical contractors, mechanical contractors, civil/sitework firms, concrete contractors, commissioning firms, specialty cleaning/service companies, equipment suppliers and other companies trying to break into or expand within data center construction.

And if you know another contractor who should be receiving this intelligence, forward this issue to them.

The bigger the contractor network becomes, the better the intelligence can become.

Will Coit
Founder & Publisher
Data Center Contractor Report

Projects. Contractors. Procurement. Opportunities.

We're already investigating:

A newly announced North Dallas development where the construction team remains undisclosed.

A $1.7 billion data center construction business that just became independent.

Several major AI campuses where billions of dollars are moving into construction and infrastructure.

And, most importantly:

Who's getting the work and where contractors may still be able to get in.