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ThisWay Global Unveils Reveille AI Compute Center at Texas A&M's RELLIS Campus, Pledging Jobs and Workforce Training

By: IDCNOVARegion: North America
ThisWay Global has unveiled plans for the Reveille AI Compute Center (RACC) at the dormant RELLIS data center site in Bryan, Texas, positioning the project as a catalyst for local workforce development and AI innovation across the Texas A&M ecosystem. The announcement, made at a conference at Texas A&M's Annenberg Presidential Conference Center, comes weeks after the company closed on the site and signals a significant new chapter for a facility that had sat idle.

Founder and Executive Chair Angela Hood, a Texas A&M alumna, emphasized that transparency and community engagement are central to the project's philosophy. "You want to make your community that you're sitting in thrive. That's part of being a good neighbor," Hood said, framing the data center's development as inseparable from the economic health of the surrounding region.

The company placed workforce development at the forefront of its message, outlining an eight-week training program spanning seven weeks of virtual instruction and one week on-site across 10 job roles. Hood indicated the program could launch by the end of the year. "In the course of eight weeks we can really start impacting someone's life as far as having a more durable job and a job at a higher wage," she said. Between 250 and 300 people are expected to work on site through June 2027, with approximately 120 full-time positions required to operate the facility once complete.

CEO Stephan Fabel said the center's impact will extend well beyond the building itself by giving Texas A&M startups access to GPUs for training AI models. "All of these startups need access to GPUs. All of these startups need to essentially train a model. Currently, unfortunately, this is a huge chasm for a lot of these companies," Fabel said. "They have a great idea. 'I know how to make the lives better of my community,' but they can't get there because they cannot train the model in order to actually bring that to bear. We want to solve that problem." He added that "the impact of the data center, what you're doing with it, actually drives economic development."

Phase One of the project consists of a 20-megawatt building that is roughly 65% complete, with a target of June 2027 for operations to begin. It will be followed by a new on-site substation and a 53-megawatt second phase, bringing total capacity to 73 megawatts across 25 acres. Both executives stressed that closed-loop liquid cooling and the dedicated substation are designed to limit water consumption and grid impacts, with Hood stating the company aims for "no negative environmental impact."

Fabel said large-scale GPU access will help attract faculty, research funding and startups to the region, allowing graduates to participate in the AI economy "right here with local impact" rather than leaving Bryan-College Station. The project also arrives amid heightened state scrutiny of data center water use. The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said it sent 156 letters statewide, including in Brazos County, regarding water-use reporting to the Texas Water Development Board. Asked whether RACC received one, Fabel said: "It wasn't for us. We didn't receive one and it doesn't apply to us."