Locator: 48731COREWEAVE.
A combination of source material and my comments -- may need to be fact-checked.
CoreWeave Inc. is expanding a data center that is projected to double the electricity needs for Denton, TX, a "suburb" as it were, north of Ft Worth, and near the geographical center of DFW population projected in 2050.
It's near the intersection of I-35 and Texas State Highway 114, already near:
- Texas Motor Speedway
- one of the first Buc-ee's in the area, maybe the state
- where BNSF locomotives are built
- home of a major commercial/industrial airport (not generally used for passenger traffic)
- I've lost the bubble on this one but I believe Ross Perot or Jerry Jones were instrumental in developing this area of north Ft Worth (Ross Perot's bio is fascinating).
University of North Texas is located in Denton, TX.
The site is being developed by Core Scientific Inc. and will be used by OpenAI in Denton, Texas. Last week, CoreWeave announced it would acquire Core Scientific for about $9 billion.
Other data points:
- this facility was focused on cryptocurrency mining before pivoting to AI workloads in December.
- the site will no longer curtail operations when power prices are high — which will increase grid strain.
- energy 24 hours a day,
365 days a year,” Puente said. That challenge will be mitigated by the
addition of backup generators and batteries -- think Elon Musk
- unlike many large projects, the Denton data center didn’t receive local tax exemptions
- officials expect more than $600 million in property and sales tax from the data center expansion, more than double the costs it plans to incur, according to an analysis document seen by Bloomberg. It also anticipates that 135 new jobs will be created
- already being rented by CoreWeave
- Core Scientific’s largest planned project at about 390 megawatts of power
- already utilizing the majority of extra system capacity” in Denton
How big is it?
- it is significantly larger than a traditional data center, but still an order of magnitude smaller than some megaprojects such as Oracle Corp.’s Stargate in Abilene, Texas.
- it will host one of the largest GPU clusters in North America,
- this Denton is a flagship facility.