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CleanCore Advances AI Data Center Expansion in Texas
CleanCore Solutions has closed its first AI data center acquisition—a 200-megawatt campus in West Texas with potential to expand beyond 500 megawatts by 2030—backed by a $100 million initial commitment through 2029 and a joint venture structure with up to $2 billion in total capital. The deal marks the company's strategic pivot from legacy cleaning services into large-scale AI infrastructure ownership.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building AI products, you now have a new megawatt buyer competing with established hyperscalers—and CleanCore has $2 billion to deploy, meaning power supply, thermal management, and connectivity vendors have a new customer ready to spend immediately. Founders selling infrastructure components to data centres should call their sales team: this West Texas campus will need optics, cooling, and power distribution before Q1 2027.
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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Cloud Infrastructure · datacenter-expansion · ai-compute · infrastructure-funding · texas-capex · power-capacity