The Reese Technology Center is a campus centered in education, research, engineering and technology and a special purpose political subdivision providing facilities and an airfield as a center of economic development for Lubbock and West Texas. Reese Center provides a core business center, areas of common enterprise between the public and private sectors, state of the art data center/fiber optic network, an educational environment for approximately 3,600 students from Texas Tech and South Plains College as well as providing approximately 750 jobs in the public and private sectors. Reese Center continues to expand it's scope of interest regionally, nationally and internationally with an emphasis on energy, alternative energy, cotton and related bio-engineering and bio-sciences, the environment and its role as a center for innovation, business development, and job creation. Profit created by RTC is re-invested into the campus and facilities.