CoreWeave Denton TX
Chip types: B200. Epoch AI estimates ~262 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Owner
- CoreWeave
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Size
- 262 MW
- Location
- Denton, Texas
- Stage today
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.
What has happened so far (13 events)
- 2024-06-01financing
In June 2024 Core Scientific entered into a 200 MW, 12-year hosting contract with CoreWeave with projected cumulative revenue of $3.5 billion, marking the original HPC agreement that would be sited partly at the Denton campus. · source - 2024-06-25financing
Core Scientific announced a new 70 MW contract with CoreWeave worth a projected $1.225 billion over 12 years, bringing the combined CoreWeave portfolio to approximately 270 MW and $4.7 billion in potential revenue. · source - 2024-07-05construction
Core Scientific disclosed it had completed a 72 MW expansion at its Denton TX facility to house bitcoin miners relocated from sites being converted for HPC hosting. · source - 2024-08-06financing
CoreWeave exercised an option for approximately 112 MW of additional HPC infrastructure at Core Scientific sites, a 12-year contract with projected cumulative revenue of $2.0 billion; site modifications were expected to begin in H2 2024. · source - 2024-08-20vote
Denton City Council voted 5-0 to approve amendments to the power purchase agreement and lease with Core Scientific, allowing conversion of its two largest buildings from cryptocurrency mining to AI high-performance computing, with an expected operational date of April-July 2025. · source - 2024-11-19vote
Denton City Council unanimously approved lease modifications giving Core Scientific an additional 42.9 acres (total 78 acres) at 8171 Jim Christal Road and a one-time $5 million payment, enabling a $6.1 billion real property investment for AI data center conversion with three phases through July 2026. · source - 2025-02-26announcement
Core Scientific and CoreWeave announced a $1.2 billion expansion at the Denton site adding 70 MW of contracted power, bringing the facility's total critical IT load to approximately 260 MW; CEO Adam Sullivan called it 'one of the largest GPU supercomputers in North America.' · source - 2025-07-07announcement
CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement to acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $9 billion, gaining access to roughly 1.3 GW of data center capacity including the Denton site. · source - 2025-10-30vote
Core Scientific shareholders voted against the $9 billion CoreWeave merger at a special meeting; the merger agreement was terminated immediately and Core Scientific remained an independent public company. · source - 2026-01-14operational
CoreWeave reported deploying more than 16,000 GPUs at the Denton facility for OpenAI workloads, recovering from construction delays that had left only a few racks delivered as of November 2025; over 2,000 GPUs were brought online in a single day in December 2025. · source - 2026-04-03coverage
The Denton Record-Chronicle reported growing community debate over data center development, with residents raising concerns about noise, environmental impact, and the pace of growth at Core Scientific's facility and other proposed sites. · source - 2026-05-07coverage
Community Impact reported the Core Scientific campus holds a lease on 78.85 acres of city land with up to 394 MW of power allocation and a $6.1 billion real property investment; the expansion begun in November 2024 is expected to be completed by 2027. · source - 2026-08-05hearing
Denton City Council voted 4-3 to direct staff to proceed with a possible 90-day data center moratorium and stricter development code amendments; public hearings were tentatively set for September 22 and October 27, 2026, with final adoption targeted for December 2, 2026. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Denton planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Denton property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 33.190, -97.140 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Recent news
9 stories tracked since 2026-08-21 across 6 outlets. 6× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. 2× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. Most recent: “Amendments to strengthen data center rules in Denton’s development code now head to the City Council” (Denton Record-Chronicle, 2026-09-27).
- Amendments to strengthen data center rules in Denton’s development code now head to the City Council
- Denton officials weigh data center moratorium during first public hearing
- Denton holds first hearing on a data center moratorium as Core Scientific eyes more land
- Denton holds first hearing on a data center moratorium as Core Scientific eyes more land
- Denton holds first hearing on a data center moratorium as Core Scientific eyes more land
- Denton leaders to decide on a possible moratorium on data center projects
- Denton residents support moratorium as city weighs future data center development
- Denton residents call for city council to impose temporary restriction on data centers
- Denton City Council starts legal process for data center moratorium
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 9 headlines archived.
Around here
- Denton community briefing — Proposedterm not documented
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “CoreWeave Denton TX”, aigridwatch.com/projects/coreweave-denton-tx, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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