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Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX)

Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX)

Announced
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

1,600-acre Crusoe campus located in Calhoun County, in the Port of Victoria, Texas. (Note: the press release places the campus in Calhoun County while titling it "Port of Victoria"; coordinates left null pending a parcel-level source.)

Capacity
1,500 MW basis: grid connection
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

61 /100
61/100

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

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 Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Crusoe / Blue Energy Data Center (Victoria, TX) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-30).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Crusoe
Developer
Crusoe
Owner
Blue Energy
Utility Provider

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. Crusoe · backs: capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/blue-energy-and-crusoe-partner-to-develop-nuclear-powered-ai-data-center

  2. DatacenterDynamics · Oct 30, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-taps-blue-energy-to-supply-nuclear-power-for-up-to-15gw-data-center-in-port-of-victoria-texas/

Signals

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

  1. · DatacenterDynamics

  2. Crusoe