A $4.8 billion Jayton data center campus surfaced in Texas state filings last week, and the paperwork says more about who’s designing it than who’s building it. Two project registrations with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, both dated Oct. 1, describe a pair of single-story buildings in Kent County at an estimated $2.4 billion apiece.
Data Center Dynamics reported the filings on Oct. 2 and attributed them to Crusoe, the developer behind the Abilene campus. The filings themselves never use that name.
What the Jayton Data Center Filings Actually Say
Both registrations carry the label Project Hyper. Spur Building 1 lists its owner as Spur DC Owner 1 LLC, with a start date of Jan. 31, 2027 and completion on June 7, 2029. Spur Building 2, owned by Spur DC Owner 2 LLC, starts Jan. 13, 2027 and finishes May 25, 2029. Each is 759,262 square feet. The address is still listed as “TBD” at County Road 233 and P2390.
The scope line is identical on both: a single-story data center with office space, “multiple data centers” and support spaces. Funding is private, on private land. No tenant is assigned.
The one firm named is HKS, the Dallas architect, as design firm on both buildings. No general contractor appears. That’s not a signal either way, since the form has no field for one.
$3,161 a Square Foot, With a Caveat
Divide the estimate by the area and each building pencils out at about $3,161 per square foot. That’s far beyond what a one-story shell costs, so the number almost certainly folds in electrical and mechanical plant, and maybe more.
Don’t lean on it. TDLR cost figures are estimates the filer enters at registration. They aren’t bids and they aren’t a GMP. Two buildings carrying identical round-number estimates tells you how precise this one is.
No power figure appears anywhere in the filings. For roughly 1.5 million square feet of data center in a rural county, that’s the number that will decide the schedule.
How Project Hyper Connects to Childress
DCD ties Jayton to Crusoe’s Childress development, which it says was filed in September under the same Project Hyper name: three buildings (the outlet gives 806,360 square feet) at $2.4 billion each, on a 1.4 GW campus Crusoe is developing with Lancium. By DCD’s count that puts Project Hyper near $12 billion across the two sites. The outlet also cites separate reports that Meta is set to lease capacity at Childress.
None of that is in the Jayton paperwork. Readers should treat the Crusoe link as one trade publication’s reporting until the company or a county record confirms it.
What the filings do establish is timing, and timing is what matters to contractors. Abilene, Childress and now Jayton would put three large campuses in the same stretch of West Texas, drawing on the same electricians and the same concrete plants. ABC’s August survey found 1 in 6 contractors already working on a data center. A vendor model we covered last month sized power construction at $150 billion a year with only 5 of 16 GW actually building.
The earlier of the two Jayton start dates is Jan. 13. That’s about 14 weeks out.