CleanSpark Expands Texas AI Data Center Footprint with Major Land Acquisition

CleanSpark Secures 447 Acres for New AI and HPC Data Center Campus in Texas

January 15, 2026

In a significant move to capture the booming demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, CleanSpark Inc., a company historically focused on cryptocurrency mining, has announced the acquisition of a 447-acre site in Brazoria County, Texas. This marks the company's second major land purchase in the state within months, signaling a decisive and rapid pivot toward becoming a key player in the high-performance computing (HPC) and AI data center market. The strategic expansion underscores the intense competition for scalable power and land in prime locations to support the next generation of compute-intensive workloads.

The deal, which includes a long-term transmission facilities extension agreement, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026. CleanSpark plans to develop a large-scale data center project on the newly acquired land, designed from the ground up for AI and HPC applications. The initial phase of the campus is planned to support a 300-megawatt (MW) power demand load, with the site's infrastructure having the potential for expansion up to a total capacity of 600MW.

This acquisition follows CleanSpark's strategic shift announced in September of last year, facilitated by $200 million in credit facilities, to host third-party HPC and AI workloads. In October 2024, the company acquired 271 acres in Austin County, Texas, for a separate campus with power agreements for up to 285MW. Together, these developments position CleanSpark with nearly a gigawatt of potential capacity in the greater Houston area, creating a clustered infrastructure footprint highly sought after by large-scale AI customers.

“The demand for scaled, AI-native compute continues to accelerate, and access to transmission-level power in strategically advantageous regions has become increasingly constrained,” said Matt Schultz, CleanSpark's CEO and chairman. He emphasized that the agreement highlights the company's ability to secure high-quality power at scale while building regional density attractive to leading AI firms.

Jeff Thomas, senior vice president of AI Data Centers at CleanSpark, noted the strategic advantage of clustered capacity for customers planning multi-campus deployments. “That scale, combined with our flexibility to deploy both in front of and behind the meter, positions us to deliver a true AI factory offering in one of the most important power markets in the country,” Thomas stated. The company has also entered a partnership with immersion cooling provider Submer to support the technical requirements of its new AI-focused facilities.

This aggressive expansion by CleanSpark reflects a broader industry trend where operators are securing massive tracts of land with guaranteed power access, often in deregulated markets like Texas, to meet the unprecedented energy demands of AI clusters. The move solidifies Texas as a central battleground for data center development and highlights the evolving landscape as companies originally in adjacent sectors reposition their assets and expertise to capitalize on the AI infrastructure boom.

Source: datacenterdynamics