Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps

Developers building AI data centers are increasingly turning to temporary villages known as man camps to house the hundreds or thousands of workers needed for construction. The style was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. At a converted Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas, now a 1.6 gigawatt data center, workers live in gray housing units and have access to a gym, a laundromat, game rooms and a cafeteria that grills steaks on-demand.

Target Hospitality has signed multiple contracts worth a total of $132 million to build and operate the Dickens County camp, which could eventually house more than 1,000 workers. The company sees the U.S. data center construction boom as its most lucrative growth opportunity; chief commercial officer Troy Schrenk called it "the largest, most actionable pipeline I’ve ever seen." Target also owns the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, which holds families detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

United States, Dickens County, Texas

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