DUG McCloud Data Centre (Skybox Houston)
OperationalDUG McCloud Data Centre (Skybox Houston) is a data center in Houston, United States, operated by DUG Technology, with 15 MW of published IT capacity, currently operational, opened in 2019.
DUG's flagship immersion-cooled HPC data hall inside Skybox Datacenters' Houston facility, built to house the 250-petaflop supercomputer 'Bubba'.
- Operator
- DUG Technology
- City
- Houston, United States
- Power, MW
- 15 MW
- Cooling
- Liquid
- Opened
- 2019
- AI-ready
- Yes
Coloprice Score
31 out of 100
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- Resilience0/35
- Compliance0/20
- Transparency6/20
- Scale15/15
- Maturity10/10
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DUG's McCloud data hall sits inside Skybox Datacenters' facility in Houston's Energy Corridor and opened in May 2019 as the debut site for the company's patented DUG Cool immersion-cooling technology. The 15 MW hall was purpose-built to house "Bubba", a roughly 250-petaflop supercomputer used for DUG's core business of seismic imaging and reservoir simulation for oil and gas clients, submerging server nodes in more than 700 tanks of dielectric fluid rather than relying on conventional air-cooled racks. A second, identical hall was floated as a near-term expansion when the site opened, though DUG has not published a combined current power figure for the campus. The hardware inside has been refreshed twice since: AMD EPYC Genoa and Intel Xeon CPU Max servers arrived in 2024, and in January 2026 DUG added 82 NVIDIA H200 GPU machines to extend the site into AI and machine-learning workloads alongside its original HPC role. Houston remains one of only three data centres DUG operates worldwide, alongside Perth and Kuala Lumpur.
- ▮One of DUG's three global immersion-cooled data centres
- ▮15 MW hall built for 'Bubba', a ~250-petaflop supercomputer
- ▮Opened May 2019 inside Skybox Datacenters' Houston facility
- ▮Hardware refreshed in 2024 (AMD EPYC Genoa/Intel Xeon Max) and 2026 (NVIDIA H200)
- ▮Uses DUG's patented DUG Cool immersion-cooling technology
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