Nvidia Partner Wistron Picks Fort Worth For $761 Million Plant

A Taiwanese manufacturing powerhouse partnering with Nvidia is planting a flag in Fort Worth, in a move likely to spur real estate activity in the area.

Wistron confirmed this week that its U.S. subsidiary, Wistron InfoComm USA, will spend $760 million redeveloping twin factories that will assemble next-generation supercomputers, the Dallas Business Journal reported. The facilities will span more than 1 million square feet in north Fort Worth.

The plants, expected to open early next year, will employ 888 people and serve as a key hub in Nvidia’s $500 billion effort to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure worldwide. Foxconn and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company are also part of the initiative.

Wistron snapped up two properties this summer in the 27,000-acre master-planned development AllianceTexas. It bought a 324,600-square-foot building at 15200 Heritage Parkway from Trammell Crow Company, which will serve as its primary site with a $580 million investment, and the 767,000-square-foot Westport 14 at 14601 Mobility Way, from Hillwood, where it will spend another $181 million.

City and county officials signed off on tax breaks to secure the deal, which quietly came together over recent months.

Jackie Lai, Wistron’s senior vice president of global manufacturing, told the outlet that Fort Worth won out for its workforce talent and its logistics and industrial infrastructure.

AllianceTexas developer and Hillwood chairman Ross Perot Jr. framed the deal as a watershed for reshoring.

For North Texas, the investment marks a full-circle moment. Intel once planned a $2 billion chip plant in the same corridor in the 1990s, before scrapping the project. This time, the momentum is real: Wistron’s move follows activity from MP Materials, which is working on a $500 million rare earth magnet factory nearby in partnership with Apple.

Wistron, one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, spun off from Acer in 2001 and now produces hardware for some of the biggest names in tech. Its Fort Worth commitment signals the scale of Nvidia’s AI push and the region’s growing role in the global supply chain.

Meanwhile, about 120 miles west of Fort Worth, Denver-based Vantage Data Centers has teed up a $25 billion tech campus near Abilene.

The company is building a 1.4-gigawatt facility in Shackelford County, comprising a 10-building, 1,200-acre data center campus. The first building of the project is expected to be completed late next year. The buildings will span 3.7 million square feet and should create 250 jobs.

— Eric Weilbacher