Crusoe is ramping construction at its new 1.2 GW data center site in Abilene, Texas, as it hustles bring the sprawling facility online by the middle of next year.
The $15 billion project is a joint venture between Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure. The campus will eventually comprise eight buildings, each of which will host up to 50,000 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72s superchips cooled by direct-to-chip liquid cooling. According to Crusoe, the availability of abundant, low-cost wind energy in Abilene factored heavily into site selection.
Construction of the first phase, comprising two buildings and 200+ megawatts, began in June 2024 and is expected to be energized in the first half of 2025. Construction of the second phase, consisting of the six additional buildings, began in March 2025 and is expected to be energized in mid-2026.
"Abilene will host one of the largest clusters of GPUs in the world, bringing thousands of jobs to the local community while delivering tens of billions of dollars in value to the economy,” Crusoe CEO and co-founder Chase Lochmiller said in a statement. “An endeavor of this size would simply not be possible without our strategic capital partnerships with Blue Owl and Primary Digital Infrastructure.”