Target Hospitality Corp. is adding another 400 beds to its workforce housing site near The Woodlands, bringing total capacity past 1,000. The beds should be ready by June 2026. The workers staying there are building data centers, and the demand for those facilities is not slowing down.

The Houston metro area has become a magnet for data center investment, mostly because of AI. Tech companies and cloud providers have committed billions to the region, drawn by cheap electricity, available land, and a state government that stays out of the way.

For The Woodlands and nearby communities, all this construction means more money flowing through local businesses but also more truck traffic, more noise, and more wear on roads that weren't built for it. Township officials have been talking with county transportation planners about the road impacts.

More data center projects are in the pipeline across the region. The workforce housing model that Target Hospitality is using has gotten attention as a way to handle the labor needs of these massive construction sites without flooding nearby apartment markets.