Data center campus
Poolside Project Horizon (West Texas)
Poolside Project Horizon is an announced AI data center campus. 2 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.
Stalled · Private land · ERCOT · Fort Stockton, Texas, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 2 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 | 2 GW | 2025-10-15 | reported | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-04-01 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Poolside AI · Campus owner/developer; ~$2B Series C reportedly failed to close, contributing to anchor collapse
- offtaker
- CoreWeave · Original anchor tenant (15-yr, 250 MW) and GPU provider; TERMINATED lease ~late March 2026
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · 40,000+ GB300 NVL72 GPUs planned; also a Poolside backer
- financier
- Mitchell family (Longfellow Ranch) · Landowner of the ~568-acre site
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
- Interconnection
On-site aero-derivative gas turbines (Permian Basin gas), 2 GW gas, Announced. Behind-the-meter aero-derivative turbines with SCR emissions control plus on-site battery storage; campus designed to run islanded from the ERCOT grid
Sources
- How CoreWeave and Poolside Are Teaming Up in West Texas to Build the Next Generation of AI Data Centers
- CoreWeave Announces Partnership with Foundation Model Company Poolside to Deliver AI Cloud Services
- Plans Unveiled for 2 GW Artificial Intelligence Campus in West Texas
- AI startup Poolside teams up with CoreWeave on 2GW data center in Texas
- CoreWeave Ends 2 GW Texas Data Center Deal With Poolside
92f624bd-bd8f-423b-a90b-1e2601a92712 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.