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Culberson County's digital-infrastructure footprint is thin: a single active asset, Hut 8's 63 MW Salt Creek bitcoin self-mining site near Orla (operational since Q2 2024), plus an unnamed, non-data-center border-wall workforce-housing proposal cited only to illustrate the Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District's regulatory reach. Salt Creek is pure bitcoin self-mining with no disclosed AI plans and is archived here rather than added as a tracker project, consistent with this tracker's treatment of other out-of-scope crypto sites. The report's broader value is regulatory context: Texas counties' lack of zoning authority, groundwater districts as the default gatekeeper for heavy industrial siting in hyper-arid West Texas, and state-level reforms (Gov. Abbott's June 2026 PUCT/ERCOT directive; the ERCOT interconnection window compressed from 180 to 30 days) that this tracker already carries from prior ingestions.
| Asset | Substance | Disposition |
|---|---|---|
| Hut 8 Salt Creek | 63 MW greenfield bitcoin self-mining site near Orla; grid-tied via Rio Grande Electric Cooperative; operational since Q2 2024 | Archive-only — pure bitcoin, no AI plans disclosed |
| Border wall 'man camp' workforce housing (Lobo Valley, south of Van Horn) | Unnamed developer proposal, 500 mobile housing units on 120 acres owned by Pecan Grove Farms; ~25,000 gal/day groundwater draw; classified a public water supply (>25 connections) pending TCEQ/groundwater-district review | Not a data center — noted only as regulatory context, no project record created |
Located near Orla in the vicinity of dense West Texas transmission corridors, Salt Creek was engineered and built in-house by Hut 8 Corp. (formed via the December 2023 merger of Hut 8 and US Bitcoin Corp.) for under $275,000/MW — about 40% below the report's cited ~$460,000/MW regional turnkey-acquisition benchmark — keeping total capex below $17.3 million against an estimated $29M third-party turnkey cost. Construction began Feb 27, 2024 and the site was fully energized and operational by Q2 2024 (April 2024). The build was funded from Hut 8's own bitcoin treasury rather than debt or equity dilution. Containerized modular ASIC units house the self-mining fleet, migrated from third-party hosted capacity in Kearney, NE and Granbury, TX — a move the developer projected would cut its marginal bitcoin-mining cost by roughly 30% versus the prior hosted arrangements.
Grid integration runs through Rio Grande Electric Cooperative. Hut 8's proprietary Reactor demand-response software monitors ERCOT wholesale prices, locational marginal pricing, and physical responsive capability in real time, automatically curtailing up to the full 63 MW load or underclocking ASIC hashboards during price or reliability stress — functioning as a flexible virtual power plant that monetizes ancillary-services participation while hedging bitcoin-price volatility.
No AI or HPC workload, tenant, or conversion plan is disclosed anywhere in the source. Consistent with this tracker's scope note (excludes pure-bitcoin sites without AI plans) and its treatment of comparable sites archived from the Reagan, Ward, Pecos, and Reeves County reports, Salt Creek is not added as a tracker project; its Feb 2024 construction start is backfilled as a historical market event for the county record.