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Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus

Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Fluidstack in Texas, Cameron County. 1.50 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.

Under construction · Fluidstack · Private land · ERCOT · Cameron County, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1.50 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

22nd-largest announced of 102 tracked campuses82th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 1,215,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced1.50 GW2026-09-21claimedcompany

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

1.50 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Fluidstack

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

1.50 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Operator / developer
Fluidstack (Fluidstack; Cameron County)
Location
Unincorporated Cameron County, Texas, near Valley International Airport / Harlingen; east of FM 509 and west of FM 106 (Cameron County)
Lifecycle / timeline
Under construction / site work; worksite permit issued Sep 10, 2026 (land clearing, grading, utilities, surface infrastructure); company says construction began on the $4B first phase; future permits required before building construction (Fluidstack; Cameron County)
Announced capacity (first phase)
Up to 1.5 GW planned for the $4B first phase (Fluidstack)
Stated investment (first phase)
$4 billion first phase (company) (Fluidstack)
Cooling / water
Closed-loop recirculating water system; East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation named as cooling-water supplier; company says the tank holds less water than an Olympic-sized pool (Fluidstack)
Grid / compliance
ERCOT market; company says it will pay its own energy/infrastructure/water costs, develop on-site generation alongside purchased power, and participate in PUC/ERCOT audits covering safety, quality of life, and grid reliability; building to comply with Governor Abbott data-center directives and Cameron County Resolution No. 2026R04056 (Fluidstack; Cameron County)
Tax treatment
No county tax abatement; company says it requested none and will pay full local property taxes (Fluidstack; Cameron County)
Jobs (company claim)
More than 2,500 construction jobs and several hundred permanent positions expected (company) (Fluidstack)
Noise (company claim)
Property-line sound limited to 60 dB during operations; berms and trees claimed to further reduce sound (Fluidstack)
Related campus
Distinct from FluidStack Texas Anthropic campus (separate Anthropic custom-build stub; city/MW undisclosed on that row).

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The story of Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus
Announced capex
$4B
Cooling
closed-loop recirculating (East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation)
Derived
Cost per MW
$3M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(606)

The deal

developer
Fluidstack · Building and operating the Cameron County AI campus.
utility
East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation · Named cooling-water supplier for the closed-loop system (company).

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Water
Closed-loop recirculating cooling; East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation (nongovernmental) named as cooling-water supplier; company says top-ups after initial fill are only for maintenance and repairs ([Fluidstack](https://fluidstack.io/community/building-compute-in-cameron-county)).

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 67.4 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-28 04:00). Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus's announced 1.50 GW would be 2.2% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Exceptional drought (D4) in Cameron County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus sits on private land in Texas, Cameron County. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

First-phase campus investment (company)
$4B. Company: $4 billion first phase planned to support up to 1.5 GW. company

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
$4B source
Cooling
closed-loop recirculating (East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation) source
Construction jobs
2,500 source

Timeline

  2. Sep 2026
    party added
    utility: East Rio Hondo Water Supply Corporation
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

496783cf-1c91-4566-98ce-67d2b5403137 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus?
Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Cameron County. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus use?
Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus has 1.50 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus?
Fluidstack is recorded as a party to Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Fluidstack Cameron County AI Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/fluidstack-cameron-county-texas

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