Crusoe Builds AI Data Center in North Texas

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC is developing a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. The facility is expected to be energized in 2025.

This is the first phase of Crusoe’s development at the Lancium campus, which will eventually expand to enable AI workloads across 1.2 GW of capacity. That reportedly would make the site one of the world’s largest data center campuses once fully operational.

A Lancium spokesperson confirmed to Commercial Property Executive that financials on the development are not being disclosed. The project is being described only as “a multibillion-dollar investment.”

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The purpose-built data center will include high-density data halls specially designed for AI workloads; plans also call for the use of local renewable energy. The facilities will feature direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems or rear-door heat exchangers, but air cooling could also be included.

At completion, each unit will be able to operate up to 100,000 GPUs on a single integrated network grid.

From bitcoin mining to AI computing

The Abilene Clean Campus totals 1,100 acres and currently has 200 MW of data center power capacity, with a total of 1,000 MW to be energized by 2025.

The property initially was set to be a bitcoin farm to operate on 800 acres located around Spinks Road and Summerhill Road. In 2021, the city of Abilene partnered with Lancium in what was, at the time, the largest project in Taylor County’s history.

Lancium’s projected investment in real property improvements totaled approximately $2.4 billion, according to Data Center Dynamics. The firm broke ground on the campus at the end of 2022.

As for Crusoe, the firm started to switch its main focus from mining cryptocurrencies to developing data center buildings late last year, DCD also reported. Established in 2018, the company initially delivered containerized data centers to oil wells in the U.S. and later extended its services to HPC and AI through its Crusoe Cloud division.

Power enough?

Despite the well-publicized travails of Texas public utilities, the state remains a hub of data center construction.

Just weeks ago, Stream Data Centers broke ground on its third project in metro San Antonio, a five-building, 1.5 million-square-foot, 200 MW development. The initial building is scheduled to come online in the second quarter of 2025.

And in May, a joint venture of PowerHouse and Harrison Street acquired a 50-acre site in Irving, Texas, where the companies plan to build an almost 1 million-square-foot, 200 MW data center campus.

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