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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Abernathy · Hale County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 540 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000049
What the source record says
Six facilities totaling 1.65 million sq ft across 313 acres. Largest data center groundbreaking in West Texas at time of announcement. TeraWulf separately targeting a data center campus in Abernathy for Fluidstack. Coordinates corrected: Abernathy TX is at approximately 33.84°N, 101.84°W; original record had longitude −101.55 which is ~15 miles east of the city.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-12 · reported proposed
Site selection and development agreement finalized in Hale County.
- 2026-04 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking April 9, 2026. LBB-01 inaugural data center targets Q1 2027 service date. Ryan Companies is general contractor.
Sources and attribution
- Aligned breaks ground on Project Caprock 540 MW campus in Hale County · Aligned Data Centers
- Aligned Data Centers breaks ground on Project Caprock 540 MW campus in Northwest Texas · GlobeNewswire
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-project-caprock-hale-county-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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