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Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave)

Galaxy Helios Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Galaxy Digital in Texas, Afton. 1.60 GW of capacity has been announced; 0.13 GW is energized. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Galaxy Digital · Private land · ERCOT · Afton, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced-to-energized gap: 1.47 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

21st-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses11th by energized capacity80th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 1,296,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: Q2 2027. Energized capacity is now on record. Claimed by Galaxy Digital (source).

Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) capacity claims
Source
Announced1.63 GW2026-07-01reportedpress release
Announced1.60 GW2026-01-31verifiedutility filing
Contracted0.80 GW2026-05-31reportedpress release
Energized0.13 GW2026-05-31reportedpress release
Under construction0.26 GW2027-06-01reportedpress release

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q3 2026 · live Q2 2026 · -1 mo build

2018-06-27Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-05-02Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-27Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-05-26Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-05-03Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

1.60 GW

Announced

0.13 GW

Energized

Galaxy Digital

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

1.47 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The story of Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave)
Announced capex
$3.5B
Grid
ERCOT · Approved and studied, the clearest queue position on this list: Galaxy announced on 15 January 2026 that it had completed ERCOT's Large Load Interconnection Study and secured a further 830 MW, doubling approved capacity to more than 1.6 GW. Wind Energy Transmission Texas is the transmission interconnection provider and AEP Texas the utility service provider. Initial power was targeted for early 2026.
Tenant
CoreWeave
Derived
Cost per MW
$2M/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(607)

The deal

grid operator
ERCOT · Grid interconnection approved via ERCOT LLIS process.
chip supplier
NVIDIA · CoreWeave AI infrastructure is NVIDIA GPU-based (supplier to tenant).
developer
Galaxy Digital · Owns and develops the Helios campus (former Bitcoin-mining site converted to AI); leases 100% to CoreWeave.
tenant
CoreWeave · Sole tenant under 15-year lease; the campus is CoreWeave's largest US AI footprint.

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Approved and studied, the clearest queue position on this list: Galaxy announced on 15 January 2026 that it had completed ERCOT's Large Load Interconnection Study and secured a further 830 MW, doubling approved capacity to more than 1.6 GW. Wind Energy Transmission Texas is the transmission interconnection provider and AEP Texas the utility service provider. Initial power was targeted for early 2026.
Water
Closed loop, recirculating internally. Galaxy has put a figure of roughly 3,000 gallons a day per building on the same design at its McGregor campus, which it describes as built like Helios; no separate published figure exists for Helios itself.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 52.0 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). Galaxy Helios Campus's announced 1.60 GW would be 3.1% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Exceptional drought (D4) in Dickens 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

Galaxy Helios Campus sits on private land in Texas, Afton. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on grid power, interconnection is Approved and studied, the clearest queue position on this list: Galaxy announced on 15 January 2026 that it had completed ERCOT's Large Load Interconnection Study and secured a further 830 MW, doubling approved capacity to more than 1.6 GW. Wind Energy Transmission Texas is the transmission interconnection provider and AEP Texas the utility service provider. Initial power was targeted for early 2026.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

CoreWeave 15-year lease, >$1B average annual revenue
$1B. Average annual revenue over lease term across full 800 MW gross Phase I-III arrangement press release
Phase 2 expansion permits filed
$3.5B permit
Helios Phase I debt facility
$1.4B press release

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

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party linked
    tenant: linked externalName "CoreWeave" to company coreweave
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

1c196dd2-f3bb-4512-ac6e-1fd594ad982e · 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

Galaxy Helios Campus vs Core Scientific / CoreWeave Muskogee HPC Campus →Galaxy Helios Campus vs Austin →Galaxy Helios Campus vs Plano →Galaxy Helios Campus vs Lancaster →Galaxy Helios Campus vs Polaris Forge 1 Building 2 →

Common questions

What is Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave)?
Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Afton. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) use?
Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) has 1.60 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0.13 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1.47 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave)?
Galaxy Digital is recorded as a party to Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave) is partially energized. 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 Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave)?
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). Galaxy Helios Campus (CoreWeave): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/coreweave-galaxy-helios-afton-texas

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