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Crusoe Childress Campus

Crusoe Childress Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Crusoe in Texas, Childress. 1 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 · Crusoe · Private land · ERCOT · Childress, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
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Under construction
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Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

42nd-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses43rd by energized capacity61th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 810,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: Q3 2026. 0 months away. Claimed by Crusoe / Lancium (source).

Crusoe Childress Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced1.40 GW2026-07-15claimedjournalist report
Announced1 GW2026-07-01reportedpress release
Energized0 GW2026-07-15reportedjournalist report

Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

1 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Crusoe

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

2

Facilities tracked

On the data center map

Every tracked data center is on this map, centered on Crusoe Childress Campus. Pan or zoom out to see how close rivals are building.

Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.

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The story of Crusoe Childress Campus
Jobs
100 permanent reported
Cooling
Closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling
Grid
ERCOT · Grid connected, on land the power partner owns: the 270 acre campus belongs to Lancium, which secures the power interconnect and runs energy orchestration, while Crusoe designs, builds and operates the data center. Behind-the-meter solar and storage sit alongside the grid supply. The announcement does not state the interconnect's approval status.

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

developer
Crusoe · 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
Grid connected, on land the power partner owns: the 270 acre campus belongs to Lancium, which secures the power interconnect and runs energy orchestration, while Crusoe designs, builds and operates the data center. Behind-the-meter solar and storage sit alongside the grid supply. The announcement does not state the interconnect's approval status.
Water
Closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling to reduce water use.

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.

Behind-the-meter solar, solar, Announced. On-site solar resource developed and managed by Lancium; capacity not disclosed.

On-site energy storage, storage, Announced. Behind-the-meter energy storage for grid reliability; capacity not disclosed.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 62.3 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 16:00). Crusoe Childress Campus's announced 1 GW would be 1.6% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Extreme drought (D3) in Childress County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Crusoe Childress Campus on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2024-12-01

    Recent Crusoe expansions include H200 capacity

    reported

    Crusoe

  2. as of 2024-06-01

    Crusoe operates H100 GPU clusters at Childress

    reported

    Crusoe

Why here

Crusoe Childress Campus sits on private land in Texas, Childress. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on solar storage power, interconnection is Grid connected, on land the power partner owns: the 270 acre campus belongs to Lancium, which secures the power interconnect and runs energy orchestration, while Crusoe designs, builds and operates the data center. Behind-the-meter solar and storage sit alongside the grid supply. The announcement does not state the interconnect's approval status.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

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.

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Investment, workforce and specs

Cooling
Closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling source
Construction jobs
Thousands of local construction jobs source
Permanent jobs
More than 100 long-term positions source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    capacity changed
    announced: 1.4 to 1
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Announced

Sources

405e9627-7a7b-4bf2-8ae1-275248cdb27e · 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 Crusoe Childress Campus?
Crusoe Childress Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Childress. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Crusoe Childress Campus use?
Crusoe Childress Campus has 1 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Crusoe Childress Campus?
Crusoe is recorded as a party to Crusoe Childress Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Crusoe Childress Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Crusoe Childress Campus is announced but not yet built. 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 Crusoe Childress 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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DEPLOY. (2026). Crusoe Childress Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/crusoe-childress-texas

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