Data centers in Ward County, Texas

0 projects · 1 unconfirmed lead and 1 dated record · last verified 2026-10-20

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Projects

No verified projects in Ward County yet (see the unconfirmed leads below). Nearest tracked projects:

Cipher Black Pearl data center · Winkler County · about 22 mi · Operational / in development (sources differ on phase)
Alpha Digital Campus (PowerBridge on LandBridge land) · Reeves County · about 39 mi · Proposed (lease option; ERCOT interconnection study)
Core Scientific Pecos campus (AI/HPC expansion) · Reeves County · about 39 mi · Under construction (company)
Microsoft Pecos datacenter campus · Reeves County · about 39 mi · Announced
Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) · Ector County · about 41 mi · Proposed / in development (county permits received, per company)
GW Ranch AI campus + GW Ranch Energy Center · Pecos County · about 56 mi · Permitted (power plant)
Pecos County Data Center (Buildings A–C) · Pecos County · about 56 mi · Registered (TDLR)
Project Horizon · Pecos County · about 56 mi · Paused

Distance is straight-line miles from the center of Ward County to the project site, or to the center of its county when we don't have the site location.

Leads (unconfirmed)

Leads are credible signals that don't yet meet our rule for a tracked project (two independent sources or one official record): sites marketed for sale, crypto mines, and news-only or company-claim projects with no filings. Each claim is labeled. We move a lead into the project list when an official record appears.

Ward County · Barstow · Company claim

Nscale Ward County AI campus (Ionic Digital Cedarvale facility, Barstow)

Nscale (tenant); Ionic Digital (landlord, Cedarvale facility)

Lead / unconfirmed Converting a bitcoin mine to AI compute (company claim); no TDLR, county or ERCOT record found

Size: Full 234 MW capacity of the Cedarvale facility leased (company claim); ~200 MW of IT load to be funded (company claim)

Company claim Ionic Digital (Oct 14 2025): Nscale will lease the full 234 MW capacity of Ionic's Cedarvale bitcoin mining facility in Barstow under a 10-year triple-net lease (~$2B contracted revenue); Ionic to move most of its mining fleet to Midland. ionicdigital.com ↗
Company claim Nscale (Aug 31 2026): closed up to $1.85B loan facility for its Ward County, Texas campus, funding NVIDIA GB300 and VR200 systems supporting about 200 MW of IT load; closed-loop direct liquid cooling and rear-door heat exchangers. nscale.com ↗
News report Public Citizen (Oct 19 2026), citing TCEQ records: construction stormwater coverage issued Sep 28 2026 to Trinity GC for 'NScale Data Center', 3013 FM 516 North, Barstow, and for 'NScale MAF 2-1 Grading Package'. citizen.org ↗
Official record TDLR TABS searched Oct 20 2026 (project, facility and owner names 'Nscale', 'Cedarvale', 'MAF'; 2025 onward): no registration found. tdlr.texas.gov ↗

Address 3013 FM 516 North, Barstow (per Public Citizen); not geocoded; county centroid used. Last checked 2026-10-20. Not counted in our project totals until an official record confirms it.

Records & actions

2026-09-28

TCEQ permit News report

Public Citizen: TCEQ issued construction stormwater coverage Sep 28 to Trinity GC for 'NScale Data Center', 3013 FM 516 North, Barstow.

Source: citizen.org ↗

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