The Crusoe-built campus in Abilene, Texas, at the Lancium Clean Campus, is reported as the flagship site of the Stargate AI infrastructure venture. We studied it the way any outside party could: from orbit, using only public satellite, weather and market data. The short answer: the roofs are clearly measurable from space, and the whole-system model points to the cooling plant as where the most efficiency headroom is likely to be, something the operations team could confirm quickly.
Pulsix is not affiliated with the campus owner or operator, Oracle or OpenAI. Nothing here uses owner data, and every figure is labeled as observed or modeled in the live Stargate Abilene case study.
A cool, reflective roof reduces heat gain, and on most commercial buildings that matters. On an AI data center, the heat load is dominated by the IT equipment inside. When we ran the observations through a whole-system model connecting the envelope, cooling, heat rejection, electrical overhead and IT capacity, the cooling-plant scenarios showed far more efficiency headroom than anything the roof could deliver.
Those scenarios are estimates until they are checked against operating data from the building automation system. The model can suggest where to look first; the operations team knows what is actually happening inside. That is why the most useful next step is a collaborative one.
We built this study from the outside, and we would welcome the chance to validate it with the people who run the campus. A handful of building-system data points would show which estimates hold, and could surface efficiency headroom worth capturing at a site this size. If you work on this campus, start a conversation with us.
No. It is an independent study built only from public satellite, weather and market data. Pulsix is not affiliated with the campus owner or operator, Oracle or OpenAI.
Yes, at the scale of a large campus. Sentinel-2 and Landsat revisit the site every few days, which is enough to measure reflectance and surface temperature over years and to compare roofs against each other and against bare ground.
No. No mechanical issue has been observed. The model shows that if certain cooling operating states are confirmed, the efficiency headroom would be worth far more than roof work, which is why they are the first thing to look at together with operating data.
Yes. The same method applies to any large facility visible from orbit, and it improves quickly with a small amount of owner data.
Zebrix Group is a service-disabled veteran-owned and Texas VetHUB-certified HVAC and mechanical contractor based in The Woodlands, Texas. We self-perform HVAC and mechanical work, deliver complete MEP scopes through licensed partner trades under our management, provide temporary cooling and power rentals, and run Pulsix, our building-intelligence research program. Request a data center evaluation or contact us.