Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has announced the construction of a 200 MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus near Abilene, Texas. Crusoe, a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure company, is collaborating with Lancium, an energy technology and infrastructure company focused on decarbonizing and stabilizing the electric power grid, to bring this specialized AI data center online in the coming months. This marks the initial phase of Crusoe’s data center development, which will eventually expand to support AI workloads at scale, utilizing 1.2 GW of power capacity at the Lancium Clean Campus.
Supported by a multibillion-dollar investment, the purpose-built data center at the Lancium Clean Campus will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads including plans to draw on local renewable energy. The design will be optimized for direct-to-chip liquid cooling or rear-door heat exchangers and will be flexible enough to include air cooling. At completion, each data center building will be able to operate up to 100,000 GPUs on a single integrated network fabric, advancing the frontier of data center design and scale for AI training and inference workloads.
“Data centers 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 center 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 endeavor.”
“Lancium’s mission to decarbonize compute for the most energy-intensive workloads and this scale and type of data center 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 deep commitment to scaling AI infrastructure in a climate-aligned way, Crusoe will own and develop the data center.
The data center at the Lancium Clean Campus is expected to be energized in 2025.
To learn more about Crusoe’s 200MW data center at the Lancium Clean Campus, visit the website here.
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