Hale County, Texas is located in the Texas Panhandle and has been identified as a potential site for data center development due to its access to electrical infrastructure and available land.
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Aligned Data Centers broke ground on Project Caprock, a 540 MW campus in Hale County, deploying DeltaFlow liquid cooling with closed-loop, recirculated systems designed to protect the Ogallala Aquifer from drawdown.
The same week, Aligned Data Centers broke ground on a 540 MW campus in Hale County, demonstrating exactly what prepared developers do to answer those questions before legislators ask them.
Simultaneously, Aligned broke ground on a 540MW campus in Hale County, deploying proprietary liquid cooling and funding its own electrical infrastructure.
Aligned Data Centers broke ground on Project Caprock, a 540MW, $5 billion campus near Abernathy in Hale County, while at the Capitol, lawmakers grilled ERCOT and PUC officials on who pays for the state's data center surge, and Google confirmed a 933MW natural gas plant under construction in Armstrong County.