Dallas–Fort Worth · Electrical supply brokerage

Your project can't wait on the factory.

DFW Power Plug is a manufacturer's rep and supply broker for data center electrical material — a specialist for the wire, cable, and gear your schedule actually runs on, in the city building the AI boom.

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For electrical contractors, GCs, EPCs, and owner-operators building data centers in North Texas — not the hyperscalers' direct pipeline.

Electrician pulling bundled cable through overhead conduit at a commercial construction site
765 MWof data center capacity under construction in DFW — 95% already pre-leased. CBRE, H1 2026
Roughing in conduit and branch wiring on a live commercial site.

DFW is the center of the AI buildout.

Demand is no longer the question — deliverable capacity is. Nearly every megawatt under construction already has a tenant, and the supply chain for electrical gear is the next constraint in line.

Aerial view of a large data center campus under construction
A hyperscale data center campus under construction — aerial view.
#1

Dallas–Fort Worth ranked the world's top primary data center market, for the first time.

Cushman & Wakefield — 2026 Global Data Center Market Comparison
95%

Pre-leased share of the 765 MW of data center capacity under construction in DFW.

CBRE, H1 2026
~13 GW

Total capacity in the North Texas data center pipeline.

Data Center Map, Aug 2026
160+ wks

Lead time for the largest power transformers by Q1 2026.

Wood Mackenzie

Sources: Dallas Innovates on CBRE's H1 2026 report · Cushman & Wakefield (Business Wire) · Terrapin CG lead-time compilation, 2026

What we do

Three ways we keep your schedule powered.

We're not a stocking distributor with a warehouse of bets — we're a broker and manufacturer's rep with a network. That means no shelf bias: we route your spec to whoever can actually deliver it.

Hard-to-source procurement

You send a spec — a cut list, a bill of materials, even a photo of the tag on the material that's missing. We work distributor, surplus, and factory channels to find it at real lengths and quantities, then deliver it drop-shipped, cut to length, or will-call.

Best forMaterial showing "out of stock," extended backorders, or start-date slips caused by one missing line item.
How we're paidA brokerage fee folded into one all-in quote — you see one number before anything moves.

Manufacturer representation

We represent cable and electrical-product manufacturers into DFW's contractor, EPC, and developer network — new lines, new territories, and product lines that need feet on the street. Lines get DFW presence without a regional headcount; buyers get direct-factory relationships.

Best forManufacturers expanding into the North Texas data center wave; contractors who want factory-direct quoting.
How we're paidCommission paid by the manufacturer. The buyer-side quote stays clean.

Surplus & excess placement

Finished a project with full reels, over-ordered feeder runs, or gear that was never set? Idle material is idle capital. We place surplus and excess inventory with contractors and projects on live schedules across DFW and the broader Texas market.

Best forContractors, developers, and owners holding excess material from completed or descoped projects.
How we're paidA share of the recovered value, agreed up front and paid on sale.

Product lines

What we source.

Two lanes: commodity and distribution-level material, where broker channels run deepest and we move fastest — and long-lead engineered gear, where factory queues create the shortage windows the secondary market pays off.

Reels of bare copper conductor staged in a wire factory warehouse
Bare copper conductor staged on reels at a wire manufacturing plant.
  • Building wire & feeder cableTHHN/THWN-2 · XHHW · Cu/Al

    Branch, feeder, and service-entrance conductors in copper and aluminum, cut to length and shipped to site.

  • Medium-voltage cableEPR · XLPE · up to 46 kV

    Distribution and primary-loop cable for campus substation and switchyard interconnections.

  • Cable tray, conduit & strutLadder · wire mesh · EMT · RMC · PVC

    Tray systems and raceway for overhead and underfloor distribution across the white space.

  • Grounding & bondingBare Cu · exothermic · clamps

    Ground rings, bonding jumpers, and riser materials that sit on the critical path for inspection sign-off.

  • Rack PDUs & buswayBusduct · tap-off boxes · whips

    Power distribution to the rack — busway runs, tap-offs, whip assemblies, and PDU strips.

  • Termination & device hardwareLugs · connectors · kits

    The small stuff that stops the big stuff: lugs, connectors, termination kits, and device hardware.

  • Transformers — padmount & dry-typePadmount · dry-type · distribution class

    In-stock, new-surplus, and quick-ship units for when the factory queue runs 100+ weeks.

  • Switchgear, UPS & power equipmentLV gear · UPS · panelboards

    New-surplus and reconditioned lineups for the long-lead items that slip schedules.

Straight talk: We're not the factory, and we won't pretend to be. Large engineered gear is overwhelmingly OEM-direct — our lane is the secondary market: new-surplus, in-stock, and reconditioned units. We'll tell you plainly when the factory queue is the only honest answer.

The numbers behind the business

The bottleneck is the gear, not the site.

When critical-path electrical equipment slips, every trade behind it does. These are the factory lead times contractors are living with in 2026.

Electrical equipment factory lead times, 2026

Quoted ranges in weeks by equipment class.

Electrical equipment factory lead times in weeks, 2026, by equipment class Range chart: rack PDUs 16–24 weeks, UPS systems over 500 kVA 26–40 weeks, generators 2 MW and up 52–78 weeks, medium-voltage switchgear 90–100 weeks, large power transformers 100–128 weeks. Rack PDUs 16–24 wks UPS · >500 kVA 26–40 wks Generators · 2 MW+ 52–78 wks MV switchgear 90–100 wks Large transformers 100–128 wks 0 40 80 120 160 lead time (weeks)

Data: TerraPin CG "Switchgear Lead Times 2026"; syaala.com compilation (Power Magazine, DOE 2024 assessment, industry procurement data) — terrapincg.com · syaala.com

The shortage isn't easing this cycle. Wood Mackenzie measured generator step-up transformer lead times past 160 weeks by Q1 2026, and projects the U.S. data center electrical equipment market to grow from roughly $20B to $65B by 2030 — a 116% rise in transformer demand chasing a manufacturing base that hasn't expanded to match. Every week of that gap is another reason brokers exist.

WebProNews on Wood Mackenzie / Reuters reporting, July 2026

How it works

From spec sheet to job site.

No logins, no portals, no "your call is important to us." Four steps, and you always know where your material is.

Step 01

Send the spec

Whatever you've got — we work backwards from incomplete specs every day:

  • A cut list or BOM line
  • A photo of a tag or nameplate
  • Quantities and a job-site date
Step 02

You get one quote

We price the full route — material, cut length, freight — as a single all-in number. No post-ship surprises, no five-line-item mystery.

Step 03

We run the network

Distributor, surplus, and factory channels across Texas and nationally — routed to whoever can actually ship, not whoever answered first.

Step 04

Material lands

Drop-shipped to your job site or will-call in DFW, cut to length and tagged to your spec so the crew can pull it straight.

Home-field advantage

We're sourcing in our own backyard.

North Texas isn't just consuming electrical material — it's manufacturing it. That local concentration is what makes fast, verified sourcing possible.

McKinney, TX — 30 min north

Prysmian / Encore Wire

Encore Wire's 180-acre headquarters and manufacturing campus in McKinney — the largest vertically integrated cable factory on the planet — was acquired by global cable giant Prysmian in a ~$4.2B deal. Prysmian has since broken ground on a $500M expansion to add medium-voltage cable production, expected to come online in 2027.

McKinney Chamber · Industrial Equipment News

Fort Worth, TX — local

Siemens

Siemens invested $150M in a high-tech manufacturing plant in Fort Worth to produce electrical infrastructure equipment — built specifically to serve data centers and critical infrastructure, creating hundreds of local jobs as it ramped.

Siemens press release, Nov 2023

Add the transformer and gear expansions spreading across East Texas and the deep distributor benches along the I-35 corridor, and the picture is simple: the material for the AI buildout is increasingly made here or stocked near here. Put us to work on your next shortage.

Straight answers

Questions contractors ask us.

Do you carry inventory?

No — and that's the point. We're a broker and manufacturer's rep, not a stocking distributor. Instead of paying overhead on a warehouse of bets, we work distributor, surplus, and factory channels to route your spec to whoever can actually deliver it. One quote, all-in, before anything moves.

What can't you source?

Commodity and distribution-level material is our home turf — wire, cable, tray, grounding, rack distribution. Large engineered gear (transformers, switchgear, generators, UPS) is overwhelmingly OEM-direct; we'll chase the secondary market for you, but we'll tell you plainly when the factory queue is the only honest answer.

How are you paid?

Buy-side brokerage carries a fee folded into the quote — you see one number, not ours stacked on top of anyone's. Manufacturer's-rep business is commission paid by the manufacturer. Surplus placement pays out of recovered value on your idle material. We'll tell you exactly which model applies before you commit to anything.

What geography do you cover?

DFW is the hub — the corridors from Red Oak to Midlothian to Fort Worth to Denton are our back yard. For fulfillment we work channels across Texas and nationally, so out-of-state material can still be routed to your DFW job site.

I'm a manufacturer. How do we work together?

We open the DFW data center channel: contractor relationships, EPC introductions, and feet on the street for new or under-represented lines. If your product fits this build cycle, tell us what you make and we'll set up a conversation.

Get started

Send the spec. Get a quote.

The fastest path is the form. Include the spec, quantities, and the date material needs to be on site, and there's no back-and-forth before we can quote.

Territory Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas · serving the Texas data center market
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