Skybox Data Centers Coming Soon!

San Angelo City Council exited closed session and addressed the sale of over 350 acres of city owned land to Sky Box Data Centers LLC.  Council approved City Manager Daniel Valenzuela's completing a letter of intent to sell that land for the specified price of $50,000 per acre.  

In January Council approved item "AI" in close proximity to President Trump & OpenAI announcing the giant "Stargate AI" project and corresponding investment.  I wondered if Stargate was headed here.

It may or may not be Stargate AI but Council approved the intent to sell 350 acres to Skybox Data Centers for $17.5 million.  Skybox helps "clients curate their best data center solution."

There's more to come given these projects need infrastructure, possibly city funded, and are only feasible with sizeable tax abatements.  Chamber of Commerce Vice President Michael Looney thanked Council today for approving the item.  He knows client expectations better than anyone and someday a few of those will be shared (the ones requiring public funding).  Stay tuned.

Update 4-29-25:  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose son has a major role in a new bitcoiin mining company,  said in an interview that bitcoin miners would locate atop natural gas fields.  Trump's elder sons switched from AI to bitcoin with their American Bitcoin.  Looks like the Sons of Monarchy are going to be our new neighbors.

Update 5-7-25:  Council passed the sale of land to Skybox Data Centers in their May 6th meeting.

Update 6-1-25: Concho Valley Homepage ran a video segment on data centers coming to San Angelo. Lancium Abilene is well on its way to eight buildings and 1.4 GW. That could power over 400,000 homes. Crusoe Energy, Primary Digital Infrastructure and Blue Owl Capital are involved in adding buildings on Lancium's site.

Update 6-14-25:  Bloomberg did a video segment on StarGate and Abilene.  Primary job creation did not seem front and center in elected officials minds.