The Buildout Registry · Texas

Core Scientific Denton Campus

Core Scientific · Denton, Denton County, Texas

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260 MW
Critical IT planned
0 MW
Energized today
2026-H2
First power
ERCOT
Grid region · location approximate
In brief

What makes it notable.

  1. A conversion of a partly built 2021 bitcoin mining campus to liquid-cooled HPC, designed, built and operated in-house, on about 78.85 acres of city land that Core Scientific leases from the City of Denton.
  2. Power runs through Denton Municipal Electric by the Jim Christal substation, with an expanded city agreement giving access to about 394 MW. The existing 297 MW is conditionally approved by ERCOT as Base Load.
  3. The plan is 260 MW critical, with first power in the second half of 2026 and full buildout in 2027. Summer weather delayed energization, which moved to 2026.
Deal anatomy

Six layers, and who holds each.

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Power
ERCOT, Denton Municipal Electric (DME), City of Denton
Site and build
Core Scientific
Compute
NVIDIA
Cloud operator
CoreWeave
Anchor tenant
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Capital
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Timeline

From here to full build.

  1. 2026-H2First power
  2. Oct 2026Today
  3. 2027Full buildout
The detail

Each party's role.

Power

ERCOT. Grid operator and balancing authority for Texas. The existing 297 MW is conditionally approved as Base Load, Pathway (a) (energized before 2022-03-25) and is outside Batch Zero; the additional 74 MW is already in ERCOT's 2025 Regional Transmission Plan cases

Power

Denton Municipal Electric (DME). Municipal utility (an ERCOT member); the campus sits by the DME Jim Christal substation, with an expanded city agreement providing access to ~394 MW

Power

City of Denton. Leases ~78.85 acres of city land near the Denton Energy Center to Core Scientific, which funds the electrical interconnection

Site and build

Core Scientific. Converting the ex-Bitcoin-mining campus (partially built 2021) to liquid-cooled high-density HPC; in-house design, build and operations. Cooling vendor undisclosed

Compute

NVIDIA. GPU supplier via CoreWeave; the specific model is not disclosed for Denton (GB200/GB300 class inferred from timing)

Cloud operator

CoreWeave. AI cloud platform / orchestration running on the hosted GPUs

Related sites

Nearby in the buildout.

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Sources

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