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Colovore Hutto (Project Raptor)

Colovore's Hutto campus, filed as Project Raptor, is a high-density, liquid-cooled colocation data center built specifically for AI and high-performance computing — and its named customers are the AI-chip and AI-cloud companies that define the sector: Cerebras, Lambda Cloud, and Cirrascale. In a corridor of hyperscaler shells with undisclosed tenants, Raptor is the one whose occupants are on the record.

Attribute	Detail
Operator	Colovore (California-headquartered)
Project name	Project Raptor
Location	2351 Innovation Blvd, Ironwood Tract, Hutto, Williamson County, TX
Distance from Austin	~30 mi NE
Setting	Ironwood Tract, a ~1M sq ft industrial park (Velocis / Ironwood Realty / MBK)
Size	30-acre site; 180,000 sq ft data center + 13,000 sq ft office
Investment	$500M
Model	Liquid-cooled, high-density colocation for AI/HPC
Known tenants	Cerebras, Lambda Cloud, Cirrascale
Approvals	Hutto City Council approval December 2024
Timeline	Construction from early 2026
Status	Under construction

What it is

Colovore is a California operator that specializes in liquid-cooled, high-density colocation — the kind of infrastructure AI training and inference require and conventional air-cooled colocation cannot deliver. Project Raptor is its Texas entry: a $500 million, 180,000 sq ft data center plus a 13,000 sq ft office on a 30-acre parcel in Hutto's Ironwood Tract, a roughly 1-million-sq-ft industrial park developed by Velocis, Ironwood Realty Partners, and MBK Industrial Properties. Hutto City Council approved it in December 2024, with construction beginning in early 2026.

The liquid-cooling model

What Colovore sells is density. Its specialty is liquid-cooled, high-density colocation — the infrastructure AI training and inference require and conventional air-cooled colocation cannot deliver. That is why its tenant roster reads the way it does: wafer-scale and GPU-dense AI hardware throws off more heat per rack than air can remove, and Raptor is built for exactly that envelope. On the US 79 corridor it fills the high-density-AI niche between the hyperscale shells (Skybox) and the enterprise dual-site platforms (Blueprint) — a specialist colocation operator rather than a landlord for a single anonymous hyperscaler.

What runs here

Unlike the merchant campuses whose tenants are undisclosed, Colovore names its customers, and they are a roster of the AI-compute sector's specialists: Cerebras (wafer-scale AI accelerators), Lambda Cloud (GPU cloud), and Cirrascale (AI-focused cloud infrastructure). Raptor's liquid cooling is what makes it fit for them — it supports the rack densities that wafer-scale and GPU-dense AI hardware demand, which air cooling cannot. This is a high-density AI/HPC colocation facility serving named AI-infrastructure companies, not a hyperscaler shell.

The Blue Origin question

Right next door to Colovore, the Hutto Crossing site is the location Blue Origin has been reported to be eyeing for its Project Blue Hub manufacturing facility. As of September 2026 that is not confirmed, but local reporting and site activity make a Blue Origin landing there widely anticipated. If it lands, it would place orbital-hardware manufacturing immediately beside AI colocation — extending the corridor's convergence into aerospace. Treat it as reported and likely, not settled, until Blue Origin confirms.

Last updated September 11, 2026. Figures are as filed and council-approved; tenant list per Colovore. The Blue Origin Blue Hub siting is reported and anticipated, not confirmed. Status: under construction from early 2026.