BULK WATER Services for Trent, TX

Crusoe's 1.2-gigawatt AI data center campus at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, with its second phase of six additional buildings expected to reach completion by mid-2026 and construction running approximately 2,000 to 5,000 workers on site daily, (Crusoe) sits approximately 25 miles east of Trent on I-20, making Trent the first community on the westbound I-20 corridor beyond the Abilene metro as the construction workforce, equipment convoys, and supply chain supporting that campus extend outward along the same highway. That proximity is compounded by the AES Buffalo Gap Repower program, which has construction underway since October 2025 across western Taylor County and parts of Nolan County, replacing 282 older turbines with 117 new Vestas V150-4.5-megawatt turbines, with 300 peak construction jobs, turbine demolition continuing through spring 2026, and new turbine operations targeted for 2027 (BigCountryHomepage), placing active large-scale wind repowering construction on both sides of Trent simultaneously along the I-20 and US-80 corridors that converge through Taylor County. Trent sits at a natural services intersection along I-20 in central Taylor County, midway between the Abilene AI data center cluster to the east and the Nolan County wind energy complex to the west, a position that makes it a staging and resupply corridor for contractors and crews working projects on both ends of that 60-mile span during what is now a concurrent multi-program construction season across the county. The Crusoe campus buildout requires sustained bulk water for civil site preparation, concrete foundation work for gas turbine and generator installations, substation construction, and crew support across a site that has been operating more like a small industrial city than a traditional construction project, while Buffalo Gap Repower requires volume water delivery for 117 new monopile tower foundations, concrete batch operations, and access road preparation across a rural wind footprint where permanent utility service does not reach active turbine pad locations. With the Stargate campus expansion and the AES Buffalo Gap Repower both running active construction programs across Taylor County simultaneously, the regional bulk water sourcing environment along the I-20 corridor is under concurrent pressure from two of the most significant infrastructure build programs in Central West Texas, and contractors staging out of Trent who have not confirmed supply arrangements before mobilization will find available capacity committed. Water Runner provides TCEQ-licensed bulk water delivery with the fleet capacity and Taylor County operational reach to serve Trent-area data center construction, wind energy programs, and I-20 corridor field infrastructure projects reliably from first mobilization through completion.