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Coreweave Helios

984 CO RD 112, AFTON, TX, 79220 · AFTON, Dickens County, TX

Source: Primary source

Coreweave Helios is a mapped data center in Dickens County, TX.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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Real parent
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Operator
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Utility
Lighthouse Electric Coop, INC
Grid
ERCO
Attribution & capacity confidence:highprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Coreweave Helios — frontier AI data center campus tracked by Epoch AI, operated by Coreweave. Located from Epoch AI's Frontier Data Centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0); operational status not independently verified.

The grid behind this site, right now

source: ERCOT · gridstatus
Clean right now
41%
Fossil right now
59%
Grid operator
ERCOT
  • Natural Gas45.3%
  • Solar29.0%
  • Coal13.7%
  • Nuclear7.9%
  • Wind4.0%

Real-time generation mix for the ERCOT grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 2:44 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~93.9K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~50.7K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~43.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 MW (interconnection capacity): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
49
PM2.5
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Lubbock), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$50.4K
People of color
36%
Below poverty
15%
Tract population
1,641

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Patton Springs School in Afton, is 2.9 mi from this site (77 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.