Dickens County, Texas

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

800 MW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Galaxy Digital

Resi rate Δ (AEP Texas)

n/a

Home price Δ (3y)

n/a

Property tax Δ (3y)

+19.1%

Population (2024 ACS)

1,747

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$49,335

Key takeaways

Dickens County has 1,747 residents on 905 square miles, one of the four smallest counties in batch 4 and 100% rural. The county seat is Dickens but the largest city is Spur, and the median age is 47.6.Source: Census ACS 2024 B01003, B01002 + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Dickens County, TX)
Galaxy Digital's 800 MW Helios campus is the second largest announced site in batch 4 after Stargate Milam. CoreWeave is the anchor tenant on a 15-year lease, the longest disclosed lease term in any batch-4 deal.Source: data/sites/data_centers.csv (Helios)
Property tax assessments rose 19.1% over three years, the steepest jump in any batch-4 county that disclosed an MW number. Median household income is $49,335 and median home value is $65,300, both the lowest in batch 4.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 48125) + Census ACS 2024 B19013, B25077
Helios is on ERCOT via AEP Texas, with no published residential rate delta because of retail deregulation. The campus delivers 458 kW of announced AI compute per Dickens County resident, the highest density in batch 4.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (no AEP Texas residential row) + data/sites/data_centers.csv

Hispanic residents make up 34.0% of Dickens County's 1,641 people, identical to Childress. Combined, more than a third of the county that hosts Galaxy's 800 MW Helios campus is non-white.Source: Census ACS 2023 B03003 (FIPS 48125)
81.4% of Dickens households own their home, tied for the highest ownership rate in batch 4. Median gross rent is $753 on a rental stock of about 60 units, meaning the campus workforce has effectively no rental landing pad in the county itself.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25003, B25064 (FIPS 48125)
14.5% of Dickens residents live in poverty and only 2.5% of workers are in manufacturing, the lowest mfg share of any Texas county in batch 4. Helios will be the first industrial-scale employer the county has had in living memory.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001, C24050 (FIPS 48125)
Only 85.5% of Dickens households have broadband at home, leaving about 240 residents off the network as a 15-year CoreWeave AI lease moves in next door. Veterans are 4.0% of adults, half the rural Texas baseline.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002, B21001 (FIPS 48125)