Coreweave Helios
Chip types: B200. Epoch AI estimates ~132 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Owner
- CoreWeave
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Size
- 132 MW
- Location
- Afton (Dickens County), 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 (9 events)
- 2022-12-01financing
Galaxy Digital completed its acquisition of the Helios data center campus in Dickens County, Texas, from Argo Blockchain for approximately $65 million; the facility had begun bitcoin mining operations in May 2022. · source - 2025-03-28announcement
Galaxy Digital announced a 15-year lease agreement with CoreWeave to deliver 133 MW of critical IT load (approximately 200 MW gross) at the Helios campus for AI and HPC operations, valued at approximately $4.5 billion over the lease term. · source - 2025-04-09coverage
KCBD reported that Galaxy is demolishing some of the existing data center shell and unplugging mining machines to begin converting the Helios campus from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure for CoreWeave. · source - 2025-04-25announcement
CoreWeave exercised its first option to expand at Helios, adding 260 MW of incremental critical IT load (Phase II) under similar economic terms, bringing total contracted capacity to approximately 393 MW with deliveries expected throughout 2027. · source - 2025-08-01financing
Galaxy Digital closed a $1.4 billion project financing facility in August 2025 to accelerate development of the Helios AI data center campus, supplemented by $350 million of Galaxy's own capital. · source - 2026-01-15filing
ERCOT approved an additional 830 MW of interconnection capacity for the Helios campus, bringing total approved capacity to 1.6 GW — described as the largest single-site allocation in ERCOT's large load interconnection queue. · source - 2026-04-01operational
Rent under the Phase I CoreWeave lease commenced in Q2 2026, with Galaxy delivering 133 MW of critical IT load (approximately 200 MW gross power) at the Helios campus. · source - 2026-07-07coverage
The Block reported that Galaxy delivered Phase I (133 MW critical IT) to CoreWeave on budget and on schedule, with Phase II (260 MW) under construction and data hall deliveries expected in H1 2027. · source - 2026-08-15coverage
The Texas Spur reported on the Galaxy-CoreWeave deal at the Helios facility in northern Dickens County, noting Galaxy is building out Phase II and that CoreWeave's largest customer is Microsoft. · 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 Afton (Dickens County) 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 Afton (Dickens County) 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 33.770, -100.540 — 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.
Around here
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Coreweave Helios”, aigridwatch.com/projects/coreweave-helios, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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