Data Center Atlas
Lancium Clean Campus Abilene AI Data Center
Partially operational Under construction
United States · 2 projects · Last reported
Summary
Lancium Clean Campus Abilene Remaining Six-Building Expansion
Oracle publishes aerial photographs of Abilene data halls and the turbine plant, captioned 15 July 2026. Oracle says 75% of the campus's total capacity had been delivered as of September 2026, with the remainder delivering in later quarters. The expansion is kept at the general construction stage; the percentage is campus-level, month-precision context and does not establish completion or operation of any of the six expansion buildings. evidence
Oracle · publication date not stated
Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus on Lancium land)
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.
Source record as of 2026-10-05 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (2)
Lancium Clean Campus Abilene Remaining Six-Building Expansion
Under construction last observed as of · Authoritative status update
The city's Q2 2025 significant-project table identifies new Lancium Buildings 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 617 FM 2404 with a reported $4 billion valuation. evidence
City of Abilene Planning and Development Services · publication date not stated
Source and location review
- Status source
- Oracle AI data-center locations page: dated construction media captions (captured 16 October 2026) evidence row
Oracle · publication date not stated · Company disclosure - Locator
- Campus locator · Official source · official_census_address_locator_point evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed_ for_ core_ preview
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 104 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus on Lancium land)
Partially operational last observed as of · Reported status
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
- Companies
- Developer: Crusoe (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Crusoe (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Crusoe (unknown scope) evidence
- Investor: Blue Owl Capital (unknown scope) evidence
- Investor: Primary Digital Infrastructure (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Lancium (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Oracle (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Oracle (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Oracle (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: OpenAI (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: OpenAI (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: OpenAI (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene (AI data center directory) evidence row
Epoch AI · published 2026-10-05 · Analyst report - Locator
- Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 22 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 32.50955, -99.77479
- Geometry licence
- public-domain-us-government
- Use scope
- Campus locator
- Scope class
- official_census_address_locator_point
- Authority
- Official source
- Source entity
- Campus
- Method
- census_public_ar_current_street_range_interpolation
- Derivation
- official_address_geocode
- Precision scope
- Official Census Public_AR_Current address-match point used only to locate the source-linked parent campus. Street-range interpolation can differ from a parcel, building, entrance, or surveyed position. The municipal address binds Buildings 5 through 8 and the remaining campus development; the point is not any one of the six remaining building locations.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The captured Census match supplies no bounded horizontal-accuracy value, and a street-range interpolation point is not asserted to fall within the campus, parcel, building, or project extent.
- Geometry evidence
- 6600dddb
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Data Centers: Investing in Communities, Powering the Future Archived copy | Oracle Company disclosure | Physical status | not stated | all-rights-reserved | Oracle | 3222773fcc16f4415692dd48c2254c15b00ea3bd5c5e4a1d4988a7a977b05e91Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| An Abilene update: What's happening at the first Stargate data centre? Archived copy | The Tech Capital Trade publication | Imported: Record, Imported: Status | source-terms-not-recorded | The Tech Capital | 1b56faedf5d16cd981d6fb4dc08bfeef08888929c6d9f7620965b1929312a3f8Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Behind-the-meter data centers: Stargate Abilene Archived copy | Cleanview Analyst report | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: First Operational, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Cleanview | 585c88e69c5cf0ec241bc3d5a4c0fc495030687d5f95c88f4d710dafad889020Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| City of Abilene Planning and Development Services 2025 Second Quarter Report Archived copy | City of Abilene Planning and Development Services Government record | Campus address context | not stated | public-government-record | City of Abilene Planning and Development Services | 181c419ff99ec07a93801da2fc43f0174040dd770ac2c02ba9f933a64db50bffRetained source material; see source provenance | |
| Crusoe and Lancium Announce 1.0 Gigawatt AI Data Center Campus in Childress, Texas Archived copy | Crusoe Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Milestone: Construction Started, Role: Developer, Owner claim | source-terms-not-recorded | Crusoe | fa8c1eb521b71850ddf6cbd3120a42b8fac5eb4e4a5412d740d54e09224f3e73Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Crusoe tops off final AI data center in Abilene, Texas Archived copy | W.Media Trade publication | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Floor Area, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | W.Media | 7f6d941eee79b6a7ddd1cb6e4488448b9495a42b9f65f4741a507fb4670a5007Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure Enter Second Phase of $15 Billion Joint Venture Archived copy | Crusoe Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: Fully Operational, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Wind, Role: Developer, Role: Investor | source-terms-not-recorded | Crusoe | 8c251fe134b7418f25079e2217cb13a273f19d5a6f1966cdcc22352a2a0e483bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Flagship Stargate Data Center Campus Expansion in Texas is Questioned Archived copy | Industrial Info Resources Trade publication | Imported: Record, Milestone: Other | source-terms-not-recorded | Industrial Info Resources | a008f9e7e31e2ab242d689d216c9e7fbb7f4d3df45b038cc87ee4f9abe7d8e4bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| OpenAI Stargate Abilene (AI data center directory) Archived copy | Epoch AI Analyst report | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Fully Operational, Power Source: Grid, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | Epoch AI | 6387ccc6c6ce321a0975c73503fb0fb920c74824019d6419e48905afb7a030c4Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand Archived copy | Epoch AI Analyst report | Imported: Record, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Wind | source-terms-not-recorded | Epoch AI | 1d7f94716c08389e4419997f927952fbdf1a3fecb3b0d5b39c4c01ca2fdda8bcFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites Archived copy | SoftBank Group Corp. Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Expansion Announced, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | SoftBank Group Corp. | 1db81e59661bc05d9f79c62a41966f02f34a6101a6d3b1187c332d51f04b3646Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Oracle AI data-center locations page: dated construction media captions (captured 16 October 2026) Archived copy | Oracle Company disclosure | Physical status | not stated | all-rights-reserved | Oracle | 35da74fdde71efad4d88d252b0d91ffd7fb4f72e89dc3699afdbae1cec5e6eb7Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| United States Census Geocoder Public_AR_Current exact-address matches for the v0.12 locator batch Archived copy | United States Census Bureau Government record | Geometry | not stated | public-domain-us-government | United States Census Bureau | db625d4738dc9a0eed46bd54216090509b1882f16c8b57578f43ac0fa76b0905Retained source material; see source provenance |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Lancium Clean Campus Abilene AI Data Center [site vcc-site-85b3549bb55293336132]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-85b3549bb55293336132/
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