Crusoe Energy Systems (Crusoe) has announced it is building a 200MW data centre at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas.
Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, and Lancium, an energy technology and infrastructure company that advances the decarbonisation and stability of the electric power grid, will work together to bring this specially designed AI data centre online in the coming months.
This is the first phase of Crusoe’s data centre development which will expand to enable AI workloads at scale across 1.2GW of power capacity at the Lancium Clean Campus.
Supported by a multibillion-dollar investment, the purpose-built data centre will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads including plans to draw on local renewable energy. The design will be optimised for direct-to-chip liquid cooling or rear-door heat exchangers and will be flexible enough to include air cooling.
At completion, each data centre building will be able to operate up to 100,000 GPUs on a single integrated network fabric, advancing the frontier of data centre design and scale for AI training and inference workloads.
“Data centres are rapidly evolving to support modern AI workloads, requiring new levels of high-density rack space, direct-to-chip liquid cooling and unprecedented overall energy demands. We’ve designed this data centre to enable the largest clusters of GPUs in the world to drive new breakthroughs in AI,” said Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe’s Co-founder and CEO.
“Given its leadership in renewable energy and plans for the site, working with Lancium in Abilene presents a unique opportunity to sustainably power the future of AI and we’re thrilled to have the support of the city in this ambitious endeavour,” added Lochmiller.
“Lancium’s mission to decarbonise compute for the most energy-intensive workloads and this scale and type of data centre is game-changing,” said Michael McNamara, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lancium. “Our energy management expertise, the integration of incremental storage and solar generation resources behind the meter at the campus and Crusoe’s design approach will combine to deliver the maximum amount of green energy at the lowest possible cost while bringing significant benefits to the Abilene community.”
Lancium’s end-to-end solutions include land acquisition, power interconnect, site engineering, renewables interconnect and power orchestration. With its commitment to scaling AI infrastructure in a climate-aligned way, Crusoe will own and develop the data centre.
The data centre is expected to be energised in 2025.
