Infrastructure developer Crusoe has filed regulatory paperwork to construct two large-scale computing facilities in Jayton, Texas. The proposed development represents a combined capital expenditure of approximately $4.8 billion, marking another substantial infrastructure push across the state’s expanding West Texas data corridor.
Details of the Proposed Jayton Campus
According to regulatory applications submitted in Texas, each of the two planned Jayton structures will span 759,260 square feet. Combined, the facilities will introduce nearly 1.52 million square feet of dedicated computing space to the Kent County site. The regulatory filings place the planned development along Country Road 233 and P2390, though exact street addresses were not specified in the documentation.
Construction on the Jayton site is slated to commence in January 2027. Under the outlined timeline, the first facility is projected to come online in May 2029, followed by the launch of the second facility in July 2029.
Integration with Childress and Project Hyper
In state filings, Crusoe designates both Jayton structures as spur buildings linked to Project Hyper, a major infrastructure development already under way in Childress, Texas. Project Hyper comprises three individual facilities, each measuring approximately 806,360 square feet, with capital costs estimated at roughly $2.4 billion per building.
Two of the Childress facilities are currently under construction, while work on the third building is scheduled to begin this month. All three structures in the Childress development are slated for completion on or before the end of June 2028, placing their launch ahead of the newly proposed Jayton site. Taken together, the combined investments across Project Hyper and the Jayton development reach approximately $12 billion.
Situated geographically between Childress and Abilene, Jayton places another substantial computing site within a broader regional network. The regulatory submissions, however, leave several operational elements unconfirmed. The documents do not indicate whether power for the Jayton installations will be drawn through utility infrastructure shared with Project Hyper, nor do they clarify whether Crusoe intends to operate the facilities directly or secure third-party enterprise tenants ahead of completion.
Regional Customers and West Texas Strategy
While Meta has been identified as a prospective tenant for the Childress campus, the Jayton filings list no dedicated customer. Nonetheless, Crusoe maintains active infrastructure deployments and relationships with multiple major technology firms across the state.
In Abilene, Texas, Crusoe’s facility is currently utilized by artificial intelligence company OpenAI, with additional capacity at that location expected to be leased to Microsoft. Furthermore, Crusoe is constructing a separate campus in Armstrong County dedicated to Google.
The Childress development features a partnership that Crusoe announced with Lancium in July 2026 for a planned 1.4-gigawatt computing campus. Lancium owns the 270-acre site and is responsible for developing and managing the power systems supporting the data halls. Those plans call for onsite solar power generation and energy storage installations to supply part of the facility’s electricity demands, alongside recirculating cooling systems designed to lower operational water consumption. The Childress site also borders an existing computing installation owned by Iren and leased to Microsoft.
Taken together, the scale and geographic distribution of the Jayton and Childress filings illustrate a broader strategy by Crusoe to distribute massive computing capacity across multiple regional hubs in West Texas rather than centralizing infrastructure in a single location.
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