Fluidstack Data Center Capex and Sites
Fluidstack raised an $830 million Series A at a $7.5 billion valuation in July 2026, led by Situational Awareness. Its anchor relationship is Anthropic's approximately $50 billion US data center program, starting with Fluidstack sites in Texas and New York: 168MW at Abernathy, Texas with TeraWulf, 244MW with Cipher Mining, and 360MW at Lake Mariner, plus a $1.4 billion Google lease backstop. It also signed a 245MW, 15-year capacity deal at Hut 8's River Bend worth $7 billion, up to $17.7 billion with extensions, inside a multi-gigawatt partnership of up to 2.295GW for Anthropic.
Reported and guided spending
Where Fluidstack builds
Financing transactions
Transactions that name Fluidstack as a party or attach to one of its named sites. Amounts are as stated; overlapping commitments are never summed.
| Parties | Instrument | Amount | Date | Site | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anthropic + Fluidstack Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment in American computing infrastructure, building data centers with Fluidstack in Texas and New York with more sites to come, creating approximately 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs. |
platform | $50.0B | announced November 2025 | n.a. | |
Hut 8 + Fluidstack + Anthropic Capacity deal at Hut 8's River Bend; the source does not state the site's location. |
lease | $7.0B | n.a. | n.a. | |
Cipher Digital (Cipher Barber Lake LLC) + Fluidstack USA II Inc. + Unnamed leading AI lab Cipher amended its Barber Lake lease with Fluidstack and entered a binding commitment with an unnamed leading AI lab to lease the facility for 10 more years after the Fluidstack term, on economic terms substantially consistent with the existing lease, extending contracted term to 20 years. The amendment adds tenant change orders, a phased data hall delivery from the fourth quarter of 2026 to the first quarter of 2027 (the September 2025 filing had targeted delivery by September 2026), and a cost framework under which Cipher bears the first $359.3 million of overruns above the initial budget and the tenant reimburses 50% of costs above that amount as additional rent. |
lease | ≥$5.2B | Amendment and binding commitment signed 24 September 2026; announced 25 September 2026 (Form 8-K) | Barber Lake data center (TX) | |
Fluidstack + US Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital was reported to be in talks to lend about $5 billion to Fluidstack to strengthen US manufacturing capacity and supply chains for data center components. Neither party commented on the report |
debt facility | ~$5.0B | Reported by The Wall Street Journal 10 September 2026; talks, not signed | n.a. | |
TeraWulf + Morgan Stanley + Fluidstack + Google Notes fund expansion at the Lake Mariner campus in Barker, New York. |
senior notes | $3.2B | priced October 16, 2025; closing October 23, 2025 | Lake Mariner campus (NY) | |
Fluidstack + Jane Street Fluidstack closed a $1.5 billion round led by Jane Street at a reported valuation above $18 billion, more than doubling the $7.5 billion valuation attached to its $750 million July 2026 raise and taking total funding to just over $2.6 billion. Reporting notes Fluidstack builds and operates facilities rather than owning chips, and that the raise follows its previously disclosed multi-year Anthropic capacity programme recorded separately in this atlas. Jane Street's participation makes it an investor in the model company, the chip-cloud provider and the facility builder at the same time. |
equity raise | ≥$1.5B | Reported 3 September 2026; closing reported 5 September 2026 | n.a. | |
Google + Fluidstack Google lease backstop supporting the Anthropic/Fluidstack buildout. |
backstop | $1.4B | n.a. | n.a. | |
Flash Compute LLC + TeraWulf Inc. + Fluidstack (JV partner) TeraWulf announced on 29 December 2025 the completion of a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Flash Compute LLC of $1.3 billion of 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2030, issued at par. Flash Compute sits under a joint venture holding company owned 50.1% by a TeraWulf subsidiary. Proceeds finance a portion of the construction cost of the Abernathy HPC Campus in Abernathy, Texas, and fund debt reserves, with the JV holding company providing a completion guarantee of up to $100 million. TeraWulf later agreed to sell its JV stake (see terawulf-abernathy-jv-stake-sale-fluidstack-2026). |
senior notes | $1.3B | Purchase agreement 18 December 2025; completion announced 29 December 2025 | Abernathy site (with TeraWulf) (TX) | |
TeraWulf Inc. + Morgan Stanley + Cantor Fitzgerald TeraWulf completed a Rule 144A offering of $1.025 billion of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 on 31 October 2025, including $125.0 million issued under the initial purchasers' option, at 100% of principal for net proceeds of about $999.7 million. The company said it intends to use the proceeds to fund a portion of the construction cost of a data center campus in Abernathy, Texas, among other purposes. |
convertible | ~$1.0B | Purchase agreement 29 October 2025; completed 31 October 2025 | Abernathy site (with TeraWulf) (TX) | |
Fluidstack + Situational Awareness Series A led by Situational Awareness. |
equity raise | $830M | July 2026 | n.a. | |
TeraWulf + Fluidstack TeraWulf agreed to sell its 50.1% interest in the Abernathy joint venture to an investor group led by Fluidstack. The Abernathy campus in Abernathy, Texas, has 168 MW of critical IT load |
acquisition | ~$530M | Announced 6 July 2026; cash consideration disclosed 5 August 2026; closing date not disclosed | Abernathy site (with TeraWulf) (TX) |
Sourced facts on Fluidstack
- TeraWulf's $3.2 billion senior secured notes name Fluidstack USA I Inc. in a designated lockbox securing the notes, and note Google LLC pledging warrants prior to completion of the expansion.
- The Hut 8 partnership for Anthropic covers up to 2.295GW, beginning with the 245MW River Bend capacity deal.
Sources for Fluidstack
Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at Capital Atlas sources.
- constructionreviewonline.comConstruction Review
- krgv.comKRGV
- fluidstack.ioFluidstack, 'Construction begins on our 1.5GW, $4B first phase in Cameron County' (21 September 2026)
- theenergymag.comTheEnergyMag
- datacenterdynamics.comDCD
- investors.terawulf.comTeraWulf
- sec.govSEC EDGAR (TeraWulf 8-K)
- anthropic.comAnthropic $50B
- cnbc.comCNBC
- reuters.comReuters
- apnews.comAP
- datacenterdynamics.comDCD
- sec.govCipher Digital Form 8-K, 25 September 2026 (SEC)
- sec.govCipher Digital press release, Exhibit 99.1 (SEC)
- techstartups.comTech Startups
- investors.terawulf.comTeraWulf
- forbes.comForbes
- techtimes.comTech Times
- sec.govTeraWulf Form 8-K, 29 December 2025
- sec.govTeraWulf Form 8-K, 31 October 2025
- siliconangle.comSiliconANGLE
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