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CleanSpark Austin County AI data center campus (Substation Road, Sealy area)
CleanSpark, Inc. (subsidiary CleanSpark Data I, LLC; seller Priority Power Management, per SEC 10-Q)
- Status
- Proposed / in development (county moratorium in effect)
- Developer / parties
- CleanSpark, Inc. (subsidiary CleanSpark Data I, LLC; seller Priority Power Management, per SEC 10-Q)
- Location
- Off Substation Road (per Banner Press); Sealy area, Austin County
- Size
- ~271 acres; long-term power supply agreements totaling 285 MW; energization of more than 200 MW expected 1H 2027 (company claim)
- Investment
- Land/power rights: $65.698M total (cash, 1,788,834 shares and deferred consideration) + $15.087M adjacent land Apr 17 2026 (SEC 10-Q, company filing)
- Concerns / impacts
- County moratorium pending a health-and-safety review (official order)
- Last verified
- 2026-10-27
Milestones
- Oct 27 2025 CleanSpark Data I, LLC agreed to buy real estate and a land purchase option in Austin County from Priority Power Management
- Apr 17 2026 bought adjacent land for $15.087M (SEC 10-Q, company filing)
- Oct 29 2025 CleanSpark announced rights to ~271 acres and 285 MW
- substation construction plan underway (company)
- Jul 27 2026 Austin County Commissioners Court unanimously adopted a moratorium on BESS and data center construction in unincorporated areas
- CleanSpark's CEO spoke at the session
- moratorium not targeted at CleanSpark (Banner Press, news; executed order on county site, official)
- CleanSpark's 10-Q cites the Austin County moratorium as a risk (company filing)
Linked power & water
Power
- Company claim 285 MW power supply agreements; substation construction underway: CleanSpark says it executed long-term power supply agreements totaling 285 MW and a substation construction plan is underway; it is evaluating nearby gas pipelines for behind-the-meter generation. investors.cleanspark.com ↗
Related records
Banner Press: court voted unanimously Jul 27 for the moratorium; CleanSpark wants a data center off Substation Road.
Source: bannerpresspaper.com ↗CleanSpark 10-Q: Austin County land/option bought from Priority Power for $65.7M; adjacent land Apr 17 ($15.1M) (company filing).
Source: sec.gov ↗CleanSpark: rights to ~271 acres in Austin County and 285 MW of power supply agreements for an AI data center campus (company claim).
Source: investors.cleanspark.com ↗Sources
- News report investors.cleanspark.com
- Official record sec.gov
- News report bannerpresspaper.com
- News report austincounty.com
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