Data center campus
Crusoe Childress Campus
Crusoe Childress Campus is an announced AI data center campus. 1.40 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Announced · Private land · ERCOT · Childress, Texas, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 1.40 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 1.40 GW | 2026-07-15 | claimed | journalist report |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-07-15 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Crusoe Energy · Develops and operates the data center campus.
- utility
- Lancium · Owns the 270-acre site and develops/manages behind-the-meter energy infrastructure.
- grid operator
- ERCOT · 1 GW interconnect fully approved by ERCOT.
Power
- Power source
- solar storage
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
- Interconnection
Behind-the-meter solar + battery storage (Lancium), solar storage, Announced. Lancium develops/manages behind-the-meter solar and storage; specific generation capacity not disclosed. 1 GW ERCOT-approved grid interconnect.
Sources
- Crusoe to develop 1.4GW data center campus in Childress, Texas · DataCenterDynamics
- Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas · Crusoe
- Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas · Lancium
405e9627-7a7b-4bf2-8ae1-275248cdb27e · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.