Stargate Lordstown Campus
OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle · Lordstown, OH · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.1745, -80.8534
- Serving utility, source-reported
- FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
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
- Under construction
Ground broken; using former Lordstown Motors / GM assembly plant; modular prefab data center approach
Underlying source - Proposed
One of five new Stargate sites; SoftBank investing $3B to convert former GM EV plant into modular AI data center factory
Underlying source - Under construction
Epoch AI satellite imagery: "Active construction visible on and around the datacenter, with the roofing mostly in place." Epoch AI reports no buildings operational yet.
Underlying source
Source notes
No capacity is recorded for this site alone: the September 2025 announcement said Lordstown and Milam County together "can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months," and gave no Lordstown-only figure. A SoftBank spokesperson said the initial SoftBank/OpenAI data center uses "a small part" of the 6.2M-sq-ft site, which also hosts a Foxconn/SoftBank hub manufacturing modular data-center equipment. Crescent Dune LLC (a SoftBank affiliate) acquired the site from Foxconn for $375M (Sept 2025, Trumbull County Auditor). SoftBank's "up to $3 billion" is a ceiling covering both manufacturing and the data center — no data-center-only investment figure is confirmed.
Lordstown sits in FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison territory (eastern PJM); sources cite "affordable electricity from FirstEnergy and American Electric Power" and FirstEnergy's high-voltage transmission. FirstEnergy completed a $30M grid upgrade (2019–2022) anticipating large industrial load. On-site generation for the data center is not confirmed in site-specific filings; the adjacent, independently owned Lordstown Energy Center is a separate gas plant.
Sources and provenance
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites — OpenAI · source retrieved 2026-07-05
- Lordstown part of $500B AI data center project — WFMJ · source retrieved 2026-07-05
- Documents Shed Light on Potential Expansion at Foxconn's Lordstown Plant · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Positive economic news bolsters Valley in 2025 · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Data center to occupy 'small part' of Lordstown AI hub; 'advanced' design · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Ohio committed at least $2.3B in data-center sales-tax breaks · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · source retrieved 2026-10-16
- OpenAI Stargate Lordstown | AI data centers · 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.