Energy Vault begins building AI infrastructure campus in Snyder - KCBD
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SNYDER, Texas (KCBD) - Energy Vault Inc. says it has started construction on an artificial intelligence infrastructure campus in Snyder for Crusoe Cloud, with an initial buildout expected to deliver 8 megawatts of modular data center capacity and a target commercial operation date in the first quarter of 2027.
The company said the first phase of the project, called Snyder AI, can be expanded to 25 megawatts in a second phase. Energy Vault described the broader site plan as a modular platform with planned capacity expansion up to 500 megawatts.
Construction work now underway includes fiber installation, site preparation and power-related infrastructure, the company said.
Energy Vault said it is purchasing 10 Crusoe Spark modular data centers from Crusoe. Crusoe will lease the units back from Energy Vault as “powered shell” infrastructure, according to the announcement, and use the capacity to support Crusoe Cloud customers for AI model training, fine-tuning and inference.
“This announcement is about speed and execution,” Marco Terruzzin, Energy Vault’s chief commercial and development officer, said in a release. He said the initial 8-megawatt deployment is targeted for commercial operation in the first quarter of 2027.
Crusoe President and co-founder Cully Cavness said the project is intended to demonstrate a “repeatable and scalable model” for deploying modular computing capacity at sites with power available.
Energy Vault, based in California, markets utility-scale energy storage technologies and energy management software.
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