Fort Worth is backing our factory with $15 million
The city bet on us. We're betting back.
We are thrilled to announce that we just signed an economic development agreement with the City of Fort Worth for our factory at AllianceTexas in North Fort Worth. The council approved it unanimously, 11-0, and the city competed for the project against sites in Arizona, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
The package is worth up to $15 million, and all of it is performance based.
It’s the second time this summer that someone outside the company has looked at what we’re building and decided to fund it.
In July the National Science Foundation awarded us $10 million as part of a $400 million national network of AI-driven cloud laboratories, most of them aimed at biotechnology and materials science. We’re the electronics one.
Fort Worth went looking for companies like us
Fort Worth has spent the last few years chasing the most technically ambitious companies it can find. The city booked $6.7 billion in new capital investment and nearly 7,000 jobs in fiscal 2025, and the Fort Worth Economic Development Partnership works from a target list of 500 companies it intends to bring here.
NVIDIA and Wistron are investing more than $700 million in AI supercomputer manufacturing at Alliance, and that plant became the first site in the United States to mass produce NVIDIA’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips. Celestica is putting $876 million into an AI manufacturing campus in the city. The list goes on, and more and more of the hardware that the AI market needs is made within a short radius of our front door.
For a long time, a company like ours only got built on the west coast. Texas decided that didn’t have to be true, and Fort Worth has been the most aggressive city in the region about proving it. We’re glad to be part of the burgeoning Silicon Plain.
Why Fort Worth for us
Parts, power and people.
Mouser’s global headquarters and distribution center sit on a 100-acre campus in Mansfield, about 40 minutes from our door, holding roughly 1.5 million square feet of electronic components. When a build needs a part we don’t stock, it doesn’t have to cross an ocean or even a state line. Alliance Airport is a few minutes north and DFW Airport is 25 minutes east, so a board leaving our workcell floor at night lands on somebody’s doorstep in the morning.
Texas also has some of the most affordable industrial electricity in the country, which matters when the building is full of machines that are constantly running. Meta’s Fort Worth facility, more than 2.5 million square feet of it, sits up the road in the same corridor, so the redundant fiber we need was trenched long before we showed up. And North Texas builds big buildings faster than anywhere in America thanks to companies like Hillwood which is wonderful for a company that intends to fill a lot of floor space with workcells.
The rest is people. Dallas-Fort Worth is the fourth largest metro in the country and closing on third. Tarrant County has the machinists, technicians and engineers a factory like this one needs, and the engineers we want to recruit from elsewhere say yes to moving here, which is not true of every city with affordable energy. People are kind to each other in a way that takes visitors a few days to believe. The barbecue is worth the move by itself. Taylor Sheridan’s SGS Studios, the largest production campus in Texas at 450,000 square feet, opened around the corner from us at Alliance, so the neighborhood is not short on interesting.
The city was genuinely good to work with, too. Former Councilmember Alan Blaylock, whose district covers the site, told the council he was “thrilled to move to approve this agreement to bring Adom Industries to Fort Worth.” We love our home.
Our end of the deal
We will provide 267 jobs in Tarrant County. We’ve also committed to look for Fort Worth residents first when we hire. Our CEO John Lauer told the council that Adom was “ready to plant our tree roots there and let those roots grow as deep as the Trinity aquifer.” That’s the plan.
What this means for you
Design from anywhere in Adom Hydrogen. Our software puts VS Code, your choice of AI agent and a full electronics toolchain in one workspace. The agents place parts, route traces, write firmware and price a BOM against Mouser, DigiKey and JLCPCB without you leaving the window.
The physical prototyping is then done for you by robots in Fort Worth. They build the board, test it and ship it, working from the design the agents just produced. The wait between wanting a thing and holding it drops from a few weeks to about a day.
Early Access
Hydrogen is opening to early users. Leave your email at adom.inc and you’ll be among the first to send a design straight from your screen to our floor. And if you’d rather build the factory than wait on it, we’re hiring in Fort Worth. See listings.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2607577.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.