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Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County)

Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

313 acres outside Abernathy, Hale County (Lubbock region, Northwest Texas) — 540MW, 1.65M sq ft across six facilities; first DC (LBB-01) service target Q1 2027. XCEL/SPS TERRITORY (SPP grid, NOT ERCOT). Groundbroke Apr 9 2026.

Capacity
540 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

67.8 /100
67.8/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Aligned Project Caprock (Hale County) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-04-09).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Xcel Energy
Utility Provider
— —
Aligned Data Centers
Developer
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    GlobeNewswire - Aligned Data Centers Breaks Ground on Project Caprock, a Sustainable 540 MW Next-Generation Data Center Campus in Northwest Texas

    GlobeNewswire · Apr 9, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/09/3271435/0/en/Aligned-Data-Centers-Breaks-Ground-on-Project-Caprock-a-Sustainable-540-MW-Next-Generation-Data-Center-Campus-in-Northwest-Texas.html

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E2
    GlobeNewswire - Aligned Data Centers Breaks Ground on Project Caprock, a Sustainable 540 MW Next-Generation Data Center Campus in Northwest Texas

    · GlobeNewswire