Two new-construction data center buildings in Jayton, in Kent County, Texas, were registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) on Oct. 1, 2026, according to the agency's Texas Architectural Barriers System (TABS) record for "Project Hyper - Spur Building 1" and a companion filing for Spur Building 2. Each building carries an estimated cost of $2.4 billion in the state records, about $4.8 billion for the pair. The filings list two separate owner entities, Spur DC Owner 1 LLC and Spur DC Owner 2 LLC, and name architecture firm HKS, Inc. as the design firm for both.

The filings themselves do not name a developer or an end user. Data center trade publication Baxtel, which reported the registrations on Oct. 2, attributed the Jayton plans to Crusoe and described the two buildings as "spur buildings" of Project Hyper, the name Baxtel said applies to plans filed in September for three data center buildings in Childress, Texas.

What the Filings Show

The two TDLR records are nearly identical. Both list the site as "TBD - Country Road 233 and P2390" in Jayton, ZIP code 79528, in Kent County. Both describe the work as new construction of a single-story data center "including office space, multiple data centers and associated support spaces," and both give the total building area as 759,262 square feet. The tenant field on each record reads "Not Assigned," and each shows a status of "Project Registered." The records give separate construction schedules for the two buildings, with Spur Building 2 (TABS2027002499) slated to start and finish a few weeks ahead of Spur Building 1 (TABS2027002494).

Baxtel's report rounds the building size to 759,260 square feet, puts construction starting in January 2027 and says the facilities are expected to become operational in May and July 2029. The TDLR records, as the primary filings, give 759,262 square feet per building and the completion dates listed below.

The Project Hyper Connection

According to Baxtel, the Childress portion of Project Hyper consists of three data center buildings totaling 806,360 square feet, each with an estimated investment of $2.4 billion, and construction has begun on two of them, with work on the third expected to start in October. Combined with the Jayton site, Baxtel reported, total Project Hyper investment could reach $12 billion.

The Childress campus was announced publicly. In a July 15, 2026 release, Crusoe and Lancium described a 1.0 GW grid-connected AI data center campus on 270 acres owned by Lancium, using a closed-loop, non-evaporative liquid cooling system. Under the arrangement the companies described, Lancium acquires the land, secures the power interconnect and manages the site's energy, while Crusoe designs, builds and operates the data center, the same structure the two used in Abilene. The companies said the end user is a "leading hyperscale technology company," which they did not name, and that the project would create thousands of construction jobs and more than 100 long-term permanent positions in Childress County. Baxtel's report describes the Childress campus as 1.4 GW; the companies' own announcement gives 1.0 GW.

"This campus represents a major milestone in Crusoe's deep commitment to the state of Texas," Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller said in the July announcement. Lancium CEO Michael McNamara said in the same release, "Childress is a natural next step in our partnership with Crusoe."

The link between the Jayton buildings and Crusoe rests on Baxtel's reporting and on the shared "Project Hyper" name in the state's records.

Context

Baxtel placed Jayton among several Crusoe sites in Texas, reporting that the company is developing a campus for Google in Armstrong County and operates the Abilene site serving OpenAI, where additional capacity is planned for Microsoft. In Childress, Crusoe and Lancium said in July that construction was expected to begin in the third quarter of 2026, and Baxtel has since reported work under way on two of the three buildings there.

What Happens Next

The next dated milestones on the record are the estimated construction start dates in the TDLR filings: Jan. 13, 2027 for Spur Building 2 and Jan. 31, 2027 for Spur Building 1, with estimated completion on May 25, 2029 and June 7, 2029, respectively. Both remain at "Project Registered" status as of Oct. 20, 2026. No power capacity figure has been disclosed for the Jayton site.

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