Data Center Registry
Hut 8 Vega Facility
Amarillo, Potter County, Texas · All 3 American Bitcoin sites
Hut 8 Vega Facility is an operating crypto mining site in Amarillo, Texas (Potter County), operated by American Bitcoin (Hut 8). The public record puts it at 205 MW operating.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- American Bitcoin (Hut 8)
- Facility type
- Crypto mining
- Location
- Amarillo, Potter County, TX
- Coordinates
- 35.2070, -101.8340 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 205 MW operating
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- 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.
- July 17, 2026Operating205 MW ASIC colocation, energized June-July 2025; hosts American Bitcoin. Source: SEC EDGAR
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of August 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Hut 8 Vega Facility in Amarillo, Potter 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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People and entities in the record
Eric Trump · founder via American Bitcoin
Co-founder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin, which mines at this site; he toured the Vega facility in person shortly after it came online in mid-2025.
Source
Notes on the record
205 MW ASIC colocation, energized June-July 2025; hosts American Bitcoin. Enumerated in Hut 8's 10-Q site list.
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
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves 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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
- Alborz Bitcoin Mine · Happy · WindHQ LLC / Canaan Inc.14 mi · Operating · 40 MW
- Project Matador · Amarillo · Fermi America21 mi · Under construction · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Hut 8 Vega Facility in Amarillo?
Nothing on record as of August 26, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Hut 8 Vega Facility in Amarillo, Potter 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 Hut 8 Vega Facility?
No lawsuit over Hut 8 Vega Facility appears in the record we track as of August 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 Hut 8 Vega Facility use?
No water withdrawal figure for Hut 8 Vega Facility 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 Hut 8 Vega Facility, and how big is it?
American Bitcoin (Hut 8) is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 205 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Hut 8 Vega Facility," updated August 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/hut8-vega-amarillo-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/hut8-vega-amarillo-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.Hut 8 10-Q Q1 2026 (site list) · SEC EDGAR · retrieved July 17, 2026
- 2.Eric Trump's American Bitcoin: Inside the newest arm of the Trump crypto empire · Fortune · retrieved August 26, 2026
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