Celestica's $876M Fort Worth Campus Puts AllianceTexas at the Center of AI Supply Chain Manufacturing
Toronto-based electronics contract manufacturer Celestica announced on May 14, 2026 that it will build an $876 million manufacturing campus at AllianceTexas in far north Fort Worth — one of the largest industrial investments in the Dallas-Fort Worth region in recent years, and a direct signal of how AI infrastructure demand is reshaping domestic electronics production.
The Announcement
According to the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Report, the Celestica campus will span more than 1 million square feet across two locations at Alliance Center North on North Beach Street. Fort Worth City Council approved a 10-year tax abatement and an incentives package for the project prior to the public announcement; the full dollar value and structure of those incentives beyond the abatement have not been publicly detailed.
Job creation figures vary slightly by source: BizJournals and Fort Worth Inc. report 1,700-plus positions, while WFAA puts the number at nearly 2,000. Across sources, the average salary is cited at $75,000. According to Bisnow, roles will span manufacturing operations, engineering, and quality assurance.
Celestica currently employs more than 27,000 people across more than 40 manufacturing and design facilities worldwide, according to Bisnow. The Dallas Morning News describes the company as a leading provider of data center equipment and infrastructure.
Why Fort Worth, Why Now
Celestica was explicit about its rationale. According to Fort Worth Inc., the expansion is intended to position the firm to meet surging demand tied to artificial intelligence and next-generation data center infrastructure. The company has not publicly named the specific hyperscaler or data center customers this facility will serve, nor the exact products — servers, networking hardware, storage systems, or power infrastructure — to be manufactured at the site.
The broader AI infrastructure buildout underway across Texas is pulling electronics contract manufacturing capacity into the region. Celestica is not the only company reading that signal. According to Bisnow, MP Materials Corp. has also announced at AllianceTexas, pointing to an intentional clustering of advanced manufacturers within the development.
Hillwood President Mike Berry, quoted in Bisnow, said Celestica's selection of AllianceTexas "further positions the area as a hub for advanced manufacturing." Hillwood owns the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development, founded by Ross Perot Jr.
What It Means for the Region
A campus of this scale — over a million square feet, nearly $900 million in capital investment, and a wage floor well above the regional manufacturing average — changes the labor and supply chain landscape in North Texas in concrete ways.
For manufacturers already operating in the AllianceTexas corridor or the broader North Texas market, the Celestica build-out represents both opportunity and competition. A facility adding up to 2,000 jobs in electronics manufacturing, engineering, and quality roles will draw from the same workforce pipeline that other area manufacturers depend on. Companies supplying industrial materials, components, logistics, or facility services to large electronics operations may find a new prospective customer in the corridor.
For the data center supply chain specifically, Celestica's presence means that some of the electronics assembly feeding hyperscaler buildouts in Texas will have a domestic production node inside the state — a shift from the offshore or out-of-region sourcing that has historically characterized that segment.
The city's willingness to approve a 10-year tax abatement before the deal was publicly announced reflects how competitive the incentive environment has become for this category of investment. Fort Worth moved decisively, and the result is a deal that reshapes the regional manufacturing landscape for years ahead.
Construction timing and an expected operational date have not been confirmed in available reports.