Crusoe, a company building AI factories, has announced that it is the developer of Google’s new data center campus being built in Armstrong County outside of Amarillo, Texas. The campus is Crusoe’s latest in West Texas, joining two others under development in Abilene.
Construction of the data center campus began in June 2025 and connects directly to Serena’s Goodnight 1 wind farm, which is operational and generates 265.5 MW. It is also adjacent to the Goodnight 2 wind farm ,which is under construction and will generate the same 265.5 MW. Surplus power from the wind farms will be fed back to the grid, in line with Crusoe’s efforts to support the buildout of clean, affordable energy in the region.
“Building the future of AI requires a new kind of infrastructure, starting with energy. Crusoe’s strategy is to build AI factories directly at the source of abundant, low-cost energy – to both improve utilization of existing assets as well as catalyze new energy generation,” said Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “The Armstrong County campus is a prime example of this energy-first strategy. We’re bringing new, affordable clean energy online. We broke ground in June 2025 and are building at the same swift pace we set in Abilene.”
In addition to the power supplied by the wind farms, the campus is designed to be water efficient. It will utilize a closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling system. According to the press release, this will limit the facility’s water consumption to domestic uses such as kitchens.
Crusoe has not said how much IT capacity the campus will support, nor how much it intends to invest in the development.
Power has become the great decider for projects in Texas. In August, governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to conduct a verification audit of all data center projects moving through ERCOT’s interconnection process. ERCOT was considering 474 GW in grid connection requests at the time, 90 percent of which were for data centers.
Since then several projects have been granted conditional base load status including the 2 GW Sweetwater Hub in West Texas being constructed by IREN. CleanSpark, Hut 8, and Galaxy Digital were granted the same status in ERCOT’s Batch Zero process in September, as w.media reported.