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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Galaxy Digital
- Address and locality
- Afton · Dickens County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,630 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 9 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000690
What the source record says
Converted from Bitcoin mining to AI/HPC. CoreWeave is the anchor tenant using the campus for large-scale AI model training. Location is near Afton, Dickens County (West Texas). Original site was 160 acres; campus has since expanded to 2,200+ acres across multiple phases. Coordinates are approximate.
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
- 2022-05 · reported operational
Campus originally built by Argo Blockchain as Bitcoin mining facility (May 2022). Galaxy acquired from Argo in late 2022.
- 2026-01 · reported under construction
ERCOT approves additional 830 MW (total 1.6 GW). CoreWeave leases full 800 MW under 15-year agreement worth avg $1B/year. First data hall delivered to CoreWeave in 2026.
- 2026-07 · reported under construction
Phase I complete: 133MW critical IT load (200MW gross power) delivered to CoreWeave under 15-year leases (two 5-year extension options); rent commencement Q2 2026. Phase II (260MW critical IT load) in development, deliveries expected H1 2027. CoreWeave's total commitment across all phases now 526MW critical IT load. Total approved campus capacity 1.63GW, potential to scale to 3.6GW. Campus now spans 2,200+ acres (expanded from the original 160-acre site).
Sources and attribution
- Galaxy secures 1.6 GW ERCOT approval at Helios campus in Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- CoreWeave locks in 800 MW at Galaxy Helios campus in Texas · Converge Digest
- $20.5M tax abatement paves way for Galaxy growth in Dickens County · The Texas Spur
- Galaxy inks major deal; Helios to host services for CoreWeave · The Texas Spur
- Galaxy Digital Helios Renovation — 133MW liquid-cooled build · Clayco
- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave · PR Newswire
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID galaxy-helios-dickens-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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