Supercomputers/Systems/Crusoe Childress AI Campus
USA · planned · ai training
Crusoe Childress AI Campus
Also known as Crusoe and Lancium Childress 1 GW
Operated by Crusoe at Crusoe Childress Lancium Site .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
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| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
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| Integrator | - Crusoe and Lancium are developing a 1.0 GW AI data center campus at Childress, Texas for an unnamed hyperscale technology company | Crusoe | - | Reported | crusoe.ai |
| Cooling | - Closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling system for the Childress campus | Crusoe | - | Reported | crusoe.ai |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
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| Facility power | 1,000 MW | 2026-07-15 | Design target | Crusoe and Lancium announce a 1.0 GW grid-connected campus; IT versus total not stated. Construction expected to begin Q3 2026. | crusoe.aiw.media |
The read
A 1.0 GW grid-connected AI data center campus that Crusoe and Lancium announced on 15 July 2026 for a 270-acre Lancium-owned site in Childress, Texas, purpose-built for an unnamed leading hyperscale technology company. Crusoe says construction is expected to begin in Q3 2026 and that the site will add behind-the-meter solar and energy storage and use closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling; at full scale it will hold hundreds of thousands of advanced AI accelerators for training or inference, but no model or count is stated. It is the second Crusoe and Lancium site after Abilene. W.Media repeats the Crusoe release (and quotes an earlier Q1 2026 construction start), so the tier is reported. It has never submitted an HPL result.
Timeline
- 2026-07-15 Announced source
Site & facility
Crusoe Childress Lancium Site
- Location
- Childress, Texas, USA
- Cooling
- Closed-loop non-evaporative liquid cooling
Change history
- 2026-10-09 Added Crusoe Childress AI Campus
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.