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Crusoe has filed plans with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a two-building data center campus in Jayton, in rural Kent County, Texas, carrying an estimated investment of $4.8 billion. The filings, first reported by Data Center Dynamics, place the site along County Road 233 and P2390. Construction is set to be
Illustration/rendering of Crusoe's Texas Hyper data center campus development, directly tied to the Jayton and Childress builds.gin at the end of January 2027, with the two buildings due online in May and July 2029.
Each building is listed at roughly 759,260 square feet, at about $2.4 billion apiece. The scope covers single-story data halls, offices, and support space. Both are described in the filings as "spur buildings" tied to a project named Hyper, a structure that points to a larger parent development.
That parent is bigger still. Hyper filings registered in September cover three more buildings in Childress, at 525 B County Road 23, each around 806,360 square feet and $2.4 billion. Combined, the two sites point to roughly $12 billion of planned investment.
County records add detail. Kent County posted notice of a public hearing on a tax abatement agreement with Crusoe Energy Systems, LLC, dated August 24, 2026, the kind of local incentive now contested across Texas. Project tracker Aterio lists the Jayton work as an announced development, and earlier Hyper reporting describes behind-the-meter solar and battery storage plus closed-loop cooling, the energy-first template Crusoe has used elsewhere in the state.
Jayton sits south of Childress and north of Abilene, between two of the company's largest builds. Crusoe is developing Google's campus in Armstrong County, and it is the developer behind the Abilene site leased to OpenAI. At the July announcement of the 1 GW Childress campus with Lancium, co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller framed Texas as the company's anchor market. "This campus represents a major milestone in Crusoe's deep commitment to the state of Texas," he said.
Baxtel counts 779 data center facilities across Texas, operated by 184 providers, with Crusoe the largest provider in the state by site count at 14.
The Jayton filing shows how far the Texas build has moved past the big metros. Crusoe's pipeline now threads through Childress, Abilene, Armstrong County, and Kent County, and each site leans on the same playbook: co-located generation, water-light cooling, and a county tax deal. That playbook is getting harder to run. Leon County commissioners rejected a Crusoe tax abatement this year, a reminder that the land and the power are rarely the hard part. The local yes is.
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