CM Global Services announced Project Santos, a plan to develop a 50-megawatt AI data center campus in Texas offering GPU

CM Global Services, LLC (CMGS) announced Project Santos on July 23, 2026, its plan to develop a 50-megawatt AI data center campus for a site in the ERCOT South grid zone. CMGS is a long-standing strategic partner of Compass Mining, Inc., and is a global provider of logistics, hardware sales, and infrastructure services with a growing focus on AI infrastructure and building site development. The announcement was made by Shanon Squires, Chief Mining Officer of Compass Mining, during a panel on bitcoin mining companies diversifying into AI infrastructure at the Energy Investors Forum.

CMGS intends to deliver Project Santos in two phases. The first phase, a 7-megawatt Tier III facility purpose-built for AI inference workloads with 5 megawatts of IT load capacity, is targeted for completion by the end of the first quarter of 2027. A subsequent 43-megawatt expansion will bring the site to its fully planned 50-megawatt capacity.

Shanon Squires stated, "This is a disciplined next step for CM Global Services, drawing upon its expertise in standing up infrastructure, while Compass Mining simultaneously continues to be the gold standard in Bitcoin mining-related services. Bitcoin mining remains the core of Compass Mining. CMGS' Project Santos reflects the power infrastructure and site development discipline CMGS built over years, and we're pursuing this initiative on our own terms."

Vishnu Mackenchery, Managing Director at CMGS, said, "This is a new step forward for CMGS, as we continue building for the future. Project Santos marks our entry into AI infrastructure and inference, and we're charting our own path, moving fast to get there."

Project Santos is being developed as a GPU-as-a-Service platform. Rather than requiring customers to bring their own hardware, CMGS is securing NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell GPU capacity to offer directly to customers as dedicated, single-tenant or multi-tenant compute. The company's ideal customer profile is AI enterprise organizations seeking dedicated capacity, and CMGS is actively in discussions with neocloud providers.