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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Galaxy Digital
- Address and locality
- Afton · Dickens County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 200 MW; Planned: 800 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000691
What the source record says
Built by Argo Blockchain as a 180 MW Bitcoin-mining facility (2022), sold to Galaxy Digital in Dec 2022 amid the crypto downturn. Galaxy has converted the site to AI/HPC hosting for CoreWeave under a 15-year lease signed March 28, 2025; ERCOT has approved 800 MW for the site (up from the original 180 MW mining build). Bitcoin mining is reported wound down (equipment removal/demolition began Q2 2025) ahead of the CoreWeave conversion — no source found describes concurrent mining and AI operation. The $1.4B figure is a project-financing debt facility (36-month term, secured by Phase I assets), not total investment or deal value; Galaxy separately committed $350M equity — investmentUsd is deliberately omitted rather than picking one of these ambiguous figures. A separate, unreconciled $460M figure appears in one lower-confidence source and is not repeated here as fact. Coordinates are approximate (single-source, not independently cross-verified — geocoding tools could not confirm the street address this pass).
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
Argo Blockchain completes a 180 MW Bitcoin-mining facility ("Helios") on 160 acres in Dickens County, TX.
- 2022-12 · reported operational
Argo sells Helios to Galaxy Digital for approximately $65M amid the 2022 crypto-market downturn, alongside a two-year hosting agreement.
- 2025-03 · reported under construction
Galaxy signs a 15-year lease with CoreWeave to convert Helios to AI/HPC hosting (ERCOT-approved capacity expanded to 800 MW); Bitcoin-mining equipment wind-down begins.
- 2026 · reported operational
Galaxy delivers Phase I (200 MW gross / 133 MW critical IT load) to CoreWeave; site begins generating lease revenue. Remaining phases (toward 800 MW) still under construction, financed by a $1.4B, 36-month debt facility (plus $350M Galaxy equity) closed August 2025.
Sources and attribution
- Sale of Helios to Galaxy Digital Holdings · Argo Blockchain
- Galaxy Digital Delivers First 200MW Phase to CoreWeave Under 15-Year Lease · CryptoBriefing
- Galaxy Digital Closes $1.4bn Debt Facility for Helios Data Center Campus in Texas · Data Center Dynamics
- Galaxy Delivers 133 MW of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave as Helios Bitcoin Mine Turns AI Hub · The Block
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID galaxy-helios-dickens-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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