Stargate Abilene
OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe · Abilene, TX · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 32.5001, -99.784
- Serving utility, source-reported
- AEP Texas
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 618 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 1200 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
Lancium, Taylor County and the City of Abilene announce Lancium's Clean Compute Campus on about 800 acres: $2.4 billion of planned investment over 20 years, beginning at 200 MW with expansion capacity to over 1 GW, hosting Bitcoin mining and other energy-intensive applications.
Underlying source - Under construction
Construction of Crusoe's multi-building AI campus begins.
Underlying source - Under construction
Announced as the flagship Stargate campus at a White House event; $500B national AI infrastructure commitment.
Underlying source - Under construction
Crusoe begins the second phase: six more buildings, bringing the campus to eight buildings and "a total power capacity of 1.2 gigawatts", then expected to be completed in mid-2026.
Underlying source - Operational
Crusoe announces the campus is live: Oracle "began delivering the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June 2025", the campus "has already begun running early training and inference workloads", and the first two buildings were energized within a year of construction starting.
Underlying source - Operational
Epoch AI: "Buildings 3 and 4 are estimated to be operational." The date is Epoch's estimate, allowing "another month" after a 22 April Oracle post that 200 MW was operational.
Underlying source - Operational
Oracle, Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings call: "Abilene, Texas today has delivered 42% of the total capacity. An additional 35% of capacity will be delivered in the next 90 days, with the remainder delivering in the subsequent quarter."
Underlying source - Operational
Epoch AI's latest satellite observation: buildings 5-8 are "structurally complete and roofed but not yet confirmed operational". Epoch's estimate for the campus stands at 509k H100-equivalents on 421 MW of IT power.
Underlying source - Operational
Oracle, Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings call: "Six of the eight campus buildings, representing 618 megawatts and 75% of total capacity, have now been delivered to the customer." Oracle did not say whether the 618 MW is IT load.
Underlying source
Source notes
Also known as the Lancium Clean Campus. Lancium announced the site in December 2021 as a Clean Compute Campus that would host Bitcoin mining and other energy-intensive applications; Crusoe has since built an eight-building AI campus on it. Oracle gives the campus as 1,100 acres; the 2021 announcement gave about 800. Epoch AI describes the AI chips as owned by Oracle and used by OpenAI. Taylor Central Appraisal District's 2026 roll (Texas appraises property as of 1 January) lists Lancium entities as owners of the land, buildings and campus substations; Crusoe-managed entities as owners of each building's "MEP" accounts; and Oracle America as owner of computer equipment for "BUILDING 1 & 2" only, valued at $3.43 billion. Business Insider reported in July 2025 that Crusoe "has committed to spending up to $3.5 billion to build the data center site in exchange for its property tax abatement"; that is a commitment under the abatement agreements, not a reported project cost, so no investment figure is recorded here. Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure describe the campus as funded by a "$15 billion joint-venture" (May 2025); the release does not split the figure into debt and equity or state a total project cost. Newmark said it arranged a $7.1 billion construction loan, led by JP Morgan, for the second phase. Crusoe gives the eight buildings "a total power capacity of 1.2 gigawatts"; Oracle describes its 618 MW for six buildings as "75% of total capacity", without saying what kind of capacity; Epoch AI projects 843 MW of IT power for the campus by Q4 2026. The operational capacity shown is Oracle's figure for capacity "delivered to the customer" as of 2026-09-10. Oracle did not say whether it is IT load, and "delivered" is Oracle's word, not an observation of running hardware. Crusoe expected the second phase to finish in mid-2026 (March 2025) and later "by the end of 2026" (March 2026). A separate 900 MW Crusoe campus for Microsoft (two buildings and an onsite power plant, the first building expected to be energized in mid-2027) is being built on adjacent land and is not part of this record; Epoch AI reported in April 2026 that OpenAI had reversed plans to expand this site. Construction-workforce figures conflict widely across sources and are not repeated here. Coordinates are the approximate centre of the eight data halls outlined on Epoch AI's satellite map of the campus (retrieved 2026-10-16).
Epoch AI lists American Electric Power as the campus's energy company. Crusoe's March 2025 announcement describes a 1.2 GW grid interconnection for the campus. Ten on-site gas turbines with a combined site rating of 360.5 MW are registered under TCEQ Standard Permit 177263 (TCEQ's technical review says they are to "generate power for onsite use only for data centers and computing") and, as of October 2026, are tracked separately as Crusoe Abilene on-site gas generation (Project Ludicrous).
Sources and provenance
- Announcing the Stargate Project — OpenAI · source retrieved 2026-07-05
- Stargate LLC — Wikipedia · source retrieved 2026-07-05
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand — Epoch AI · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Stargate Data Centers Site-by-Site: Status, Dependencies, and What to Watch · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Stargate data center poised to complete construction this year in Abilene · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Taylor County residents raise concerns on tax breaks at commissioners meeting · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene | AI Data Centers · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Taylor County and City of Abilene Announce Historic Partnership With Lancium · source retrieved 2026-07-10
- Crusoe Begins Construction on Second Phase of Abilene, Texas Data Center Campus · source retrieved 2026-07-10
- Crusoe Adds 4.5 GW of Natural Gas to Fuel AI, Expands Abilene Data Center to 1.2 GW · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Lancium, Crusoe Executives Brief Abilene Leaders on Major Northside Investment · source retrieved 2026-07-10
- City of Abilene, Taylor County to Build Billion-Dollar Data Center to Host Bitcoin Mining · source retrieved 2026-07-10
- Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Crusoe announces new 900 MW AI factory campus in Abilene, Texas to support Microsoft AI infrastructure · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Oracle Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings call, third-party transcript (June 10, 2026) · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Oracle Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings call, third-party transcript (September 10, 2026) · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Taylor CAD 2026 Certified Adjusted Appraisal Roll (as of August 17, 2026) · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Crusoe announces flagship Abilene data center is live · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Abilene, Texas data center · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Frontier data centers dataset (CSV): OpenAI Stargate Abilene · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Oracle Seeks Bigger Tax Breaks in Texas With Property Value Protest · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital, and Primary Digital Infrastructure enter second phase of $15 billion joint venture to fund AI data center in Abilene, Texas · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- Newmark Facilitates $7.1 Billion Financing for Texas AI Data Center · source retrieved 2026-10-16
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.