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Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus
Abernathy, Hale County, Texas · All 3 Fluidstack sites
Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus is a data center under construction in Abernathy, Texas (Hale County), operated by Fluidstack. The public record puts it at announced 2026, 168 MW planned, 120 acres.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Fluidstack
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Abernathy, Hale County, TX
- Coordinates
- 33.8400, -101.8400
- Power capacity
- 168 MW planned
- Land
- 120 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2026
- Utility
- Xcel Energy (SPS)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- 2026Under constructionTeraWulf developed and then sold the ~120-acre Abernathy campus to Fluidstack in a Google-backed deal; delivery targeted H2 2026 Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus in Abernathy, Hale County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Adjacent Aligned Caprock campus uses Xcel Energy; Fluidstack's Abernathy power provider not named in sources reviewed.
Notes on the record
~120-acre campus in Abernathy (Hale/Lubbock counties). Distinct from the separately-tracked Aligned 'Project Caprock' Abernathy campus (313 acres, different operator/parcel). 168 MW critical IT load (240 MW gross). Google-backed via a ~$1.3B lease obligation backstop. The frequently cited $9.5B is 25-year contracted revenue, not capex (in notes only). NOTE: the Anthropic lease associated with this deal is at TeraWulf's Justified/Hawesville KY campus, not Abernathy. Coordinates are the Abernathy town centroid.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Aligned Data Centers Project Caprock · Abernathy · Aligned Data Centersunder 1 mile · Under construction · 540 MW · Mixed reception
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus in Abernathy?
Nothing on record as of July 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus in Abernathy, Hale County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus?
No lawsuit over Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus appears in the record we track as of July 26, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus, and how big is it?
Fluidstack is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 168 MW. The site is recorded at 120 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Fluidstack Abernathy AI Campus," updated July 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/fluidstack-abernathy-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/fluidstack-abernathy-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.TeraWulf and Fluidstack to develop Texas data center in Google-backed deal · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.TeraWulf announces Anthropic lease at Justified Data Campus and sale of majority interest in Abernathy JV to Fluidstack · TeraWulf Inc. · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
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