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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Merlin (Helios II).
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Galaxy Digital
- Address and locality
- McGregor · McLennan County · Texas
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 3,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000689
What the source record says
~500MW initial phase, up to 3,500MW long-term. 500 acres NE of the SpaceX facility. Second Galaxy Digital Texas site, distinct from the tracked Afton/Dickens County Helios campus.
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
- 2026-06-25 · source-reported proposed
McGregor City Council approved the project.
Sources and attribution
- Galaxy Digital AI data center announced in McGregor, Texas · The Energy Mag
- Galaxy Digital eyes second Texas data center site, buys land outside Waco · Data Center Dynamics
- KXXV — McGregor residents submit petition to recall mayor over data center water concerns
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID galaxy-digital-mcgregor-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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