Crusoe Opens Colorado Factory to Mass-Produce Modular AI Data Centers
Brighton facility will produce deployable compute units in as little as three months
Crusoe, a Denver-based AI infrastructure company, announced Thursday it will open a 352,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Brighton, Colorado, dedicated to producing self-contained, deployable data centers it calls Crusoe Spark units.
The company is committing more than $200 million to the project, which it expects will create over 200 local jobs. The first factory-produced units are slated for completion in the third quarter of 2026.
Each Spark unit ships as a complete package, with power, cooling, fire suppression, remote monitoring, and high-density GPU racks built in. Deployments can scale from a few hundred kilowatts up to hundreds of megawatts, and units can be clustered to form larger compute installations.
Crusoe says it can deliver a configured unit in as little as three months, compared to timelines that typically stretch 18 months or more for purpose-built data centers. The company frames the difference as a shift from construction to manufacturing.
"Speed is core to Crusoe's DNA, and is the primary driver behind our new Spark Factory," said Cully Cavness, co-founder, president and chief strategy officer at Crusoe. "By manufacturing modular data center units in-house, we can rapidly scale our Crusoe Cloud and Managed Inference offerings."
The Brighton facility comes as demand for AI compute continues to strain conventional infrastructure timelines. According to Crusoe's full announcement, the Spark line is aimed squarely at closing the gap between where AI workloads are generated and where compute currently lives.
Crusoe's Spark units are designed to pair with multiple power sources, including grid power, natural gas generation, solar paired with repurposed electric vehicle batteries, and eventually small modular nuclear reactors. A liquid-cooled version of the unit is planned for the second half of 2026 to support next-generation, high-density GPU clusters.
The announcement coincides with the launch of Crusoe Edge Zones, a new cloud product designed to bring low-latency AI capacity to specific geographies. Together, the two offerings are aimed at customers that need sovereign or on-premise AI infrastructure without building a full-scale data center.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis welcomed the investment. "Colorado is the best place in the country to build the future," Polis said. "Crusoe's new 'Spark Factory' will create more than 200 high-paying jobs in Colorado building upon our strong and talented workforce."
Crusoe, which was founded in 2018 and has raised nearly $4 billion in total funding according to Data Center Dynamics, began as a company that converted stranded natural gas from oil fields into compute power. It has since expanded into a vertically integrated operation covering energy sourcing, data center construction, and cloud services. The Brighton plant adds domestic manufacturing to that stack.
The company is currently hiring for manufacturing, electrical engineering, and production operations roles in the Denver and Brighton areas.