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Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus on Lancium land)
Site records
Crusoe-developed eight-building AI campus in Abilene, Texas, planned at about 1.2 GW and leased to Oracle, which runs it for OpenAI as the flagship Stargate site. Construction began in mid-2024; the first buildings came online in September 2025 and the last building was topped out in November 2025. The build is funded through a Crusoe, Blue Owl and Primary Digital joint venture on Lancium-owned land. A potential 600 MW expansion nearby was floated in 2025, but reports in March 2026 said it had been dropped, which Oracle disputed. In late September 2026 trade press reported six buildings delivered to OpenAI, and analyst Epoch AI projected all eight running by November 2026.
This record reports partially operational as of 2026-10-05. Epoch AI; The Tech Capital
Location: Abilene, Texas, US. Abilene city centroid from an OpenStreetMap Nominatim lookup. Cited sources name the city but give no street address or parcel, so the campus itself is not pinpointed. Crusoe; W.Media; Epoch AI
Use: Ai training, Ai inference
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | about 1,200 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2025-05-21 | Full eight-building campus. Sources do not say whether this is IT or facility power. | Crusoe; W.Media |
| Power capacity | more than 200 MW | Operational · Phase · It load · Phase 1 (buildings 1-2) | 2025-11-18 | The first two buildings, reported operational since September 2025, provide more than 200 MW of IT capacity. | W.Media |
| Power capacity | about 421 MW | Operational · Campus · It load | 2026-07-28 | Analyst estimate, not a company disclosure: Epoch AI's estimate of operating IT power with four buildings running, built from satellite imagery, filings and cooling models. Epoch projects about 843 MW of IT power by Q4 2026. | Epoch AI |
| Power capacity | about 360 MW | Permitted · Campus · Onsite generation | 2026-04 | Analyst report, not a company disclosure: Cleanview gives this initial combined gas turbine capacity from permit documents and estimates from satellite imagery that the plant was finished in January 2026. | Cleanview |
| Power capacity | 600 MW | Planned · Phase · Unspecified · Potential expansion near Abilene (reported dropped in 2026) | 2025-09-24 | Announced in September 2025 as a potential expansion near the flagship site. In March 2026 Industrial Info relayed a Bloomberg report that the expansion was off; OpenAI said it put the capacity elsewhere and Oracle called the reports false. | SoftBank Group Corp. |
| Investment | about 15,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2025-05-21 | Size of the Crusoe, Blue Owl and Primary Digital joint venture funding the campus. | Crusoe |
| Buildings | 8 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-05-21 | Crusoe; W.Media | |
| Floor area | about 980,000 sq_ft | Operational · Phase · Phase 1 (buildings 1-2) | 2025-11-18 | W.Media | |
| Floor area | about 4,000,000 sq_ft | Planned · Campus | 2025-11-18 | W.Media | |
| Jobs construction | about 7,000 count | Reported · Campus | 2025-11-18 | Workers Crusoe said come to Abilene every day to build the campus, cited at the final topping out. In May 2025 the joint venture reported about 3,000 daily workers, expected to approach 5,000. | Crusoe; W.Media |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crusoe | Developer | Crusoe develops, builds and operates the campus and leases it to Oracle for OpenAI. | Crusoe; W.Media; Crusoe |
| Blue Owl Capital | Investor | Co-sponsor of the $15 billion joint venture, investing through funds managed by its Real Assets platform. | Crusoe |
| Primary Digital Infrastructure | Investor | Co-sponsor of the joint venture funding construction. | Crusoe |
| Lancium | Owner | Crusoe describes the Abilene campus land as Lancium-owned. | Crusoe |
| Oracle | Tenant | Leases the buildings and runs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure capacity there for OpenAI. Analyst Epoch AI, not a company disclosure, lists Oracle as owner of the AI chips. | SoftBank Group Corp.; W.Media; Epoch AI |
| OpenAI | Tenant | End user of the compute, served through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. | SoftBank Group Corp.; W.Media; Epoch AI |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06 | Construction started | Actual | Crusoe dates the start of phase 1 to June 2024; one trade article gives July 2024. | Crusoe; W.Media; Crusoe |
| 2025-03 | Other | Actual | Construction of phase 2 (six more buildings) began. | Crusoe |
| 2025-09 | First operational | Actual | Crusoe announced the first phase live in September 2025. Analyst Epoch AI judges only building 1 fully operational then and building 2 by December 2025. | W.Media; Cleanview; Epoch AI |
| 2025-09-23 | Expansion announced | Actual | A potential 600 MW expansion near Abilene was announced alongside five new Stargate sites. | SoftBank Group Corp. |
| 2025-11 | Other | Actual | Eighth and final building topped out. | W.Media |
| 2026-03 | Other | Actual | Bloomberg reported, as relayed by Industrial Info, that plans to expand the campus were dropped; Oracle called the reports false. Analyst Epoch AI also describes OpenAI as having reversed a plan to expand the site. | Industrial Info Resources; Epoch AI |
| 2026 | Fully operational | Planned | Crusoe targeted energizing phase 2 by mid-2026. Analyst Epoch AI, not a company source, projects buildings 5 to 8 operational around November 2026. | Crusoe; Epoch AI |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Connected to the ERCOT grid, per analyst Cleanview. Analyst Epoch AI reports a 200 MW substation serving the first buildings and a larger 1 GW substation that looked complete in July 2026 imagery. | Cleanview; Epoch AI |
| Natural gas onsite | On-site gas turbines, including GE Vernova LM2500XPRESS and Solar Titan 350 units, per permit records summarized by analyst Cleanview; analyst Epoch AI saw the on-site plant looking complete by March 2026. | Cleanview; Epoch AI |
| Wind | Crusoe cited the region's low-cost wind power as a major factor in choosing the site; analyst Epoch AI notes the grid supply includes local wind. | Crusoe; Epoch AI |
Estimates of how much of the campus is live differ: an Oracle post in April 2026 said 200 MW was operating, analyst Epoch AI estimated about 0.3 GW of facility power then and about 421 MW of IT load by mid-2026, and The Tech Capital reported six buildings delivered to OpenAI in late September 2026. Epoch figures are analyst estimates, not company disclosures. Crusoe is separately building a 900 MW data center on adjacent Lancium-owned land, which Epoch links to Microsoft; it is a different project.
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Sources for these details
- Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure Enter Second Phase of $15 Billion Joint Venture — Crusoe; 2025-05-21
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites — SoftBank Group Corp.; 2025-09-24
- Crusoe tops off final AI data center in Abilene, Texas — W.Media; 2025-11-18
- Flagship Stargate Data Center Campus Expansion in Texas is Questioned — Industrial Info Resources; 2026-03-10
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand — Epoch AI; 2026-04-17 · Archived source
- Behind-the-meter data centers: Stargate Abilene — Cleanview; publication date not stated
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene (AI data center directory) — Epoch AI; 2026-10-05
- An Abilene update: What's happening at the first Stargate data centre? — The Tech Capital; 2026-09-29 · Archived source
- Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas — Crusoe; 2026-07-15
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