Jet.AI has announced a planned joint venture with Choo Choo Express to develop a 50-megawatt data center campus in Moapa, Clark County, Nevada. The two companies intend to establish the facility on approximately 20 acres, noting proximity to major transmission, natural gas, and fiber infrastructure with access to water and transportation corridors. The campus will be located adjacent to a remediated coal-fired power plant now operating as a 200-megawatt battery energy storage installation.
The project targets high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) cloud workloads, with specific emphasis on supporting hyperscale inference deployments. Jet.AI notes that the location’s proximity to key Southwestern US markets, including California and the Las Vegas metropolitan area, offers the potential for low-latency, edge network workloads.
Jet.AI expects to provide approximately $10 million in capital over a two-year period, subject to development milestones such as feasibility studies, utility expansion, entitlements, and power procurement. Once operating, the data center is positioned to capitalize on robust existing utility connectivity, including electric transmission, natural gas pipelines, and fiber routes. Choo Choo Express is expected to contribute the land for the development, pending due diligence and the execution of definitive agreements.
Jet.AI highlights the technical expertise Choo Choo Express brings to the project, explaining that certain CCE personnel have direct design, construction, and operational experience from large-scale data center projects for Core Scientific. “CCE brings a related workforce of thousands of contractors, alongside deep local knowledge of the Moapa area and forty years of in state development experience,” said Jet.AI Executive Chair Mike Winston.
Both companies report that a fully developed 50-megawatt data center could realize an illustrative enterprise value of roughly $500 million. Jet.AI expects its stake to be approximately 70 percent of the common equity promote, subject to project appraisals and financial structuring. Management states that actual economics will depend on development milestones, market conditions, and final transaction terms.
Source: Jet.AI
