A data center campus featuring round domed buildings is planned outside El Paso, Texas.

ServerDome Global (aka ServerDomes) is looking to develop a multi-building off-grid data center campus at the Hueco Ranch site in the Desert Haven area of Hudspeth County.

The 350MW project could total ten buildings powered by a behind-the-meter gas solution, spanning some 700 acres on a 2,000-acre site that is idle ranch and oil and gas land. The site will reportedly also include some geothermal generating capacity, according to some reports.

According to its website, ServerDomes aims to develop 600ft × 300ft prefabricated dome shells instead of traditional data center buildings that can be delivered in as little as 12 months. It claims a single dome can support around 20MW.

Construction on the $10 billion project has already started. Phase one reportedly has tenants secured. The site will use a closed-loop cooling system to reduce water use.

ServerDome is working with investment firm Kaufman & Company on the Texas project.

News of the project surfaced earlier this month after Hudspeth County Judge Joanna E. MacKenzie published an open letter confirming that a developer was looking to build in the area. David J Keegan, CEO of ServerDome Global, later apologized for the lack of notice given to local residents and officials about the development.

The original ServerDomes (formerly Server Dome) was spun out of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), which built a domed data center facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2014. That facility was covered by a geodesic dome made of aluminum and used natural convection to cool the servers without air conditioning units, exhaust fans, dehumidifiers, chillers, or CRACs. The company was spun out and officially launched its distinctive geodesic design in 2017.

The dome has air intakes toward the bottom of the building and air vents toward the top. An airfoil helps improve exhaust – much like the ‘chicken coop’ design used by Yahoo, among others – and a ‘vegetative bio-swale’ around the facility provides additional cooling and air supply.

The company now says its design can support air and liquid cooling, offering densities of up to 250kW per rack.

On its website, ServerDome Global also lists plans for projects in Port Mackenzie, Alaska; Prairie County, Montana; Mesa, Arizona; Mona, Utah; and Saudi Arabia. ServerDome Global CEO Keejan has previously said the company is also targeting a development outside Houston in Wharton, Texas.

The company has also reportedly broken ground on the project in Utah, according to a press release from July. That project, located outside Salt Lake City in Juab County, is known as Granite Fortress and will use rooftop solar for some of its power needs. That site, which also involves Data Center Power Company, will seemingly not use the dome design, however.

Kaufman has said it is working to bring domed data center campuses to Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and South Dakota, as well as international markets including India, Europe, and Canada.

Founded in 2020, Kaufman & Company is a private investment and holding firm founded by Daniel Kaufman and backed by the Kaufman family office.

ServerDomes is listed as one of the companies backed by Kaufman Ventures, the venture capital wing of the Kaufman family office.

Lonestar Kaufman, a real estate development and investment firm founded in 2022, is a JV partner in AI infrastructure projects with ServerDomes Global for developments in Texas and Utah.

“The issues of power, water, appearance, and jobs are real, impactful concerns, and we were seeing them in our own projects and across the industry,” Daniel Kaufman, founder of Kaufman & Company, said in the July announcement. “The geometry is what makes this exciting. It is a dome with a green roof that blends into the landscape rather than another lit box stretching for miles.”

ServerDomes has previously signed a deal to deploy its domes in Mexico alongside local infrastructure investor Fermaca Infraestructura, though it's unclear if this partnership ever deployed any capacity.

Last year, ServerDomes announced it was partnering with Global Green Generation, an engineering and construction management firm, to deliver its dome facilities.