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 Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkCoreweave 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- Natural Gas43.2%
- Solar37.3%
- Coal9.7%
- Nuclear5.6%
- Wind4.1%
Real-time generation mix for the ERCOT grid this site draws from, as of Aug 17, 2026, 8:04 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELT- CoreWeave to lease capacity from EdgeConneX at data center campus in Cedar Creek, Texas - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jul 27, 2026
- AI cloud company CoreWeave to fill $440M Cedar Creek data center - Community ImpactCommunity Impact· Jul 25, 2026
- CoreWeave (CRWV) Locks In Galaxy Digital’s $3.5 Billion Texas Data Center Deal - simplywall.stsimplywall.st· Jul 23, 2026
- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave - KCBDKCBD· Jul 10, 2026
- Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave - galaxy.comgalaxy.com· Jul 6, 2026
- Galaxy Digital (NasdaqGS:GLXY) Valuation After Texas AI Data Center Plans And Helios Leasing Progress - Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance· Jun 10, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No 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.
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.
Water use
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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe 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.