Energy Vault has begun construction on a new AI infrastructure campus in Snyder, Texas, US, to deploy the Crusoe Spark modular data centres.
The infrastructure campus is intended specifically for Crusoe Cloud platform.
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The first phase, known as “Snyder AI”, marks the initial rollout of Energy Vault’s plans for the site and follows a commercial agreement between Energy Vault and Crusoe that was announced earlier.
This phase will provide 8MW of powered shell capacity utilising Crusoe Spark modular data centre units.
According to Energy Vault, the campus is designed so this capacity can be expanded to 25MW during a second phase. The company plans to reach commercial operations with the first deployment in the first quarter of 2027.
The broader design allows for further campus expansion up to 500MW, with annual revenue per MW to align with previously issued guidance.
On-site work has started and includes fibre installation, preparation of the site, power infrastructure works, and the establishment of supporting systems for the Crusoe Spark data centre modular platform.
These modular units are intended to be rapidly deployed, with installation and commissioning expected in weeks rather than the years typically associated with traditional data centre facilities.
Energy Vault is buying ten Crusoe Spark modular data centres from Crusoe. Crusoe will in turn lease the units as powered shell infrastructure and deploy its Crusoe Cloud capacity for customers focused on AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Energy Vault chief commercial and development officer Marco Terruzzin said: “Energy Vault is delivering AI infrastructure by combining land, power, redundancy, controls, and modular infrastructure to help AI compute customers move from concept to capacity faster.
“Our relationship with the City of Snyder has been built through early community engagement, responsible site development and investment in infrastructure intended to create lasting local benefits.”
The Snyder campus brings together powered land, electrical infrastructure, N+1 redundancy, on-site battery energy storage systems, and data centre facilities.
