BULK WATER Services for Abilene, TX

Crusoe announced a new 900-megawatt AI (Crusoe) factory campus in Abilene in March 2026 to support Microsoft AI infrastructure, bringing total projected capacity across the full Abilene site to 2.1 gigawatts, building on the first 1.2-gigawatt campus where the second phase of construction, including six additional buildings for a total of eight buildings across approximately 4 million square feet, is expected to reach completion by the end of 2026, with approximately 2,000 to 5,000 workers on site daily, (DPR Construction) making Abilene the anchor location of what is now the largest active AI data center construction program in the United States. Abilene's appeal to Stargate developers centers on its wide open undeveloped space around a mid-sized West Texas city that is not a suburb of anything, combined with access to natural gas, solar power, and wind power, along with a lucrative 85 percent property tax abatement over 10 years on a project valued at $3.5 billion, (Texas Standard) and Crusoe's confirmed construction cost of approximately $12 billion for the original campus alone confirms that the Abilene corridor now hosts the most concentrated single-site capital investment in West Texas infrastructure history. In 2026, the Abilene campus focus has shifted to completing the 1.2-gigawatt first campus while simultaneously breaking ground on the new 900-megawatt expansion, (Business Wire) and those concurrent programs running across two adjacent campuses require sustained bulk water for natural gas turbine foundation pours, data center slab and structural concrete work, substation civil construction, cooling tower fill operations, access road preparation, and potable crew support for a workforce that Abilene's municipal utility system cannot serve at active pad locations several miles from the city's distribution infrastructure. The Abilene construction site, spanning 900 acres larger than New York City's Central Park, has been operating at the pace of a boomtown since shovels went in the ground in June 2024, (EnergyNow) and the addition of the Microsoft-dedicated 900-megawatt expansion campus with its own dedicated on-site power plant means the construction water demand on the Abilene corridor will remain at peak for the full 2026 through 2027 build cycle. With Crusoe's track record of energizing the first two Abilene buildings in under one year now fully extended to a 2.1-gigawatt multi-campus program supported by institutional commitments from Microsoft, Oracle, and the full Stargate consortium, every regional bulk water supply resource in Taylor County will be committed to concurrent pad programs across the original and expansion campuses long before any subcontractor arriving without pre-confirmed supply arrangements could source an alternative. Water Runner provides TCEQ-licensed bulk water delivery with the fleet capacity and Taylor County operational reach to serve Abilene's AI data center construction programs, concurrent EPC subcontractor field operations, and all infrastructure projects across the I-20 corridor reliably from first mobilization through project energization.