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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Aligned Data Centers Project Caprock.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Abernathy · Hale County · Texas
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 540 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000049
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Xcel Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 313 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- April 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Aligned is building and funding dedicated electrical infrastructure to protect local ratepayers. Xcel Energy is the key power partner. Regional renewable resources (solar, wind) available in Texas Panhandle.
Water. DeltaFlow liquid cooling technology with closed-loop air-cooled heat rejection; no Ogallala Aquifer water use per developer.
Community. Hale County finalized a development agreement and the April 2026 groundbreaking was billed as the largest data-center groundbreaking in West Texas; Aligned emphasized funding dedicated electrical infrastructure to protect local ratepayers. Local coverage also documents some resident concern; no formal opposition or litigation found.
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 · source-reported proposed
Site selection and development agreement finalized in Hale County.
- 2026-04 · source-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
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- 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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000049
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Abernathy, TX · Hale (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Aligned Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: April 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-12 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-04 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 313 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 540 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Xcel Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-06
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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