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Project Hyper – Childress (Crusoe/Lancium Childress campus)
Crusoe (design/build/operate); Lancium (land, power interconnect) (Crusoe); owners Childress DC1, DC2, DC3 LLC (TDLR)
- Status
- Registered (TDLR)
- Developer / parties
- Crusoe (design/build/operate); Lancium (land, power interconnect) (Crusoe); owners Childress DC1, DC2, DC3 LLC (TDLR)
- Location
- Childress (525 CO RD 23), Childress County
- Size
- 3 single-story data center buildings × 806,359 sq ft (TDLR); 270 acres, 1.0 GW grid-connected (Crusoe, Jul 15 2026); DCD describes it as 1.4 GW
- Investment
- Est. $2.4B per building (TDLR)
- Reported benefits
- Thousands of construction jobs and 100+ permanent positions (company figure); closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling (Crusoe)
- Last verified
- 2026-10-05
Milestones
- Jul 15 2026 Crusoe and Lancium announced the campus, construction expected to begin Q3 2026 (Crusoe)
- Sep 11 2026 Buildings 1–3 registered with TDLR (starts Jul 6, Sep 1 and Oct 5 2026; completions Feb 28, Apr 28 and May 31 2028)
- DCD reports construction has begun on two buildings
Related records
2026-09-11
Building registration (TDLR) Official record
TDLR TABS: 'Project Hyper – Childress' Buildings 1–3, 806,359 sq ft and est. $2.4B each, 525 CO RD 23.
Source: tdlr.texas.gov ↗2026-07-15
Company announcement Company claim
Crusoe and Lancium announce 1.0 GW, 270-acre AI data center campus in Childress; construction expected Q3 2026.
Source: crusoe.ai ↗Sources
- Official record tdlr.texas.gov
- Official record tdlr.texas.gov
- Official record tdlr.texas.gov
- Company claim crusoe.ai
- News report datacenterdynamics.com
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