The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Lancium: $150.0M raised.
Overview
Lancium is a Texas power and infrastructure company that develops large behind-the-meter Clean Campus sites co-located with renewable generation, marketed for AI and high-performance computing loads. Its Abilene, Texas campus hosts the Crusoe-built data center serving the Oracle and OpenAI Stargate project.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Axis classification
CEO
Key site
Current leadership (1)
- Michael McNamara CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Lancium.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Lancium on the data-center map
Every verified data center Lancium operates that has a mapped coordinate (2 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Lancium data centers (2)
- Stargate AbileneAbilene · partially energized
- Lancium Clean Campus AbileneAbilene · under construction
AI data centers Lancium operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Lancium in third-party press
Financial state
- Total funding
- $150.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (3)
Lancium’s 3 disclosed rounds, $150M in total, oldest to newest.
- Funding
$50M(reported)
- Funding
$50M(reported)
- Funding
$50M(reported)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 18, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Common questions
What is Lancium?
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Is Lancium a top robotics company?
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Is Lancium safe?
Methodology: Claimed (not independently verified) · no sources on file · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Claimed (not independently verified)
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Lancium.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Lancium from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Weekly Recap: MOUs to mobilize $500B AI infrastructure and Aug 26 Q2 guidance - TradingView
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Nvidia invests up to US$3B in Lancium as energy becomes new AI bottleneck - digitimes
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Nvidia reportedly weighs up to US$3B stake in Lancium - digitimes
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Texas Weekly Deal Highlights - Texas CEO Magazine
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Octaipipe on liquid cooling and physical AI - capacityglobal.com
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MORE DETAILS: Abilene announced for largest AI infrastructure project with $500 billion+ investment - BigCountryHomepage.com
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/lancium.md
- RSS feed: /companies/lancium/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/38db3126-63da-456f-adae-fc88589b6690
- Revision history: /companies/lancium/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Lancium against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026