Crusoe Begins Phase Two of $15 Billion AI Data Center Buildout in Texas

Crusoe, the vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, has begun construction on the second phase of its AI data center campus in Abilene, Texas, part of a $15 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure. When complete, the site will support 1.2 gigawatts of compute capacity and host one of the densest concentrations of NVIDIA’s latest AI chips in the world.

“The foundation of artificial intelligence starts with energy and data centers,” said Crusoe CEO and co-founder Chase Lochmiller. “Crusoe is bringing these AI factories to life at an unmatched speed and scale that enables our customers to usher in a new era of AI-driven abundance.”

Construction of the first two buildings began in June 2024 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. Phase two, which includes six additional buildings, started in March and will add roughly 1 gigawatt of capacity. All eight buildings are scheduled to be operational by mid-2026. Each structure will house up to 50,000 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 units, connected via a unified RDMA fabric for large-scale AI model training and inference.

Crusoe is responsible for designing, building, and operating the entire site. “We developed the data center itself, and we're in charge of building it, and we will own it in a joint venture partnership,” said CEO Chase Lochmiller in a Bloomberg interview. “These large-scale data centers with chips… can manufacture intelligence.”