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Stargate Abilene

Stargate Abilene is an AI data center campus developed by Oracle in Texas, Abilene. 1.20 GW of capacity has been announced; 0.30 GW is energized. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Oracle · Private land · ERCOT · Abilene, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.90 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

30th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses7th by energized capacity54th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 972,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2026. Energized capacity is now on record. Claimed by Crusoe / Lancium (Oracle-OpenAI Stargate) (source).

Stargate Abilene capacity claims
Source
Announced2.10 GW2026-03-27reportedjournalist report
Announced1.20 GW2024-07-18reportedpress release
Energized0.30 GW2026-06-30reportedjournalist report

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q3 2024 · live Q2 2026 · 2 yr build

2018-08-31Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-05-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-05-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-08Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 25.

DC Building 37
Building sqft: 105,417
polygon on record (6 vertices)
DC Building 17
Building sqft: 105,406
polygon on record (6 vertices)
DC Building 27
Building sqft: 105,406
polygon on record (6 vertices)
DC Building 4
Building sqft: 105,399
polygon on record (6 vertices)
DC Building 39
Building sqft: 105,329
polygon on record (6 vertices)
DC Building 22
Building sqft: 105,327
polygon on record (6 vertices)

Manifest totals: 2,627,785 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

1.20 GW

Announced

0.30 GW

Energized

Oracle

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

1

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Role
Flagship Stargate site (OpenAI / Oracle / SoftBank / Crusoe)
Location
Abilene, Texas (ERCOT grid)
Lifecycle
Partially energized (~0.3 GW across ~4 of 8 buildings, 2026)
Announced capacity
1.2 GW (Crusoe/Oracle/OpenAI); ~2.1 GW combined with adjacent Microsoft AI factory
Chip
Nvidia Blackwell
Cooling
Closed-loop direct-to-chip, near-zero evaporation; ~10M gal/year (Abilene mayor)
On-site power
~360 MW behind-the-meter natural gas generation, partially energized
Total JV capital (1.2 GW)
$15B (Blue Owl + JPMorgan + JV partners)
Debt/equity phase-2 (6 buildings)
$11.6B
Tenant
OpenAI (Oracle-operated)

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The story of Stargate Abilene
Announced capex
$15B
Grid
ERCOT · Grid connected, with on-site generation alongside: power comes from a mix of on-site natural gas and grid supply that includes local West Texas wind. As of April 2026 about 0.3 GW was operational against a planned 1.2 GW, so most of the campus is not yet energised.
GPUs
450K 450,000 GB200
Tenant
OpenAI
Land owner
Lancium
Derived
Cost per MW
$13M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(607)

The deal

grid operator
ERCOT · Grid-interconnection delays exceeding a year drove the 1.2 GW cap.
tenant
OpenAI · Anchor of the Stargate project.
developer
Oracle · Cloud provider / co-developer.
financier
SoftBank Group · Stargate investment partner.
chip supplier
NVIDIA · Nvidia Blackwell chips.
construction
Crusoe · Built the site.

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Grid connected, with on-site generation alongside: power comes from a mix of on-site natural gas and grid supply that includes local West Texas wind. As of April 2026 about 0.3 GW was operational against a planned 1.2 GW, so most of the campus is not yet energised.
Water
Closed-loop, direct-to-chip water cooling with near-zero evaporation; Abilene's mayor stated the site uses roughly 10 million gallons/year, against the city's 21 to 24 million gallons/day.

On-site behind-the-meter natural gas generation, 0.36 GW gas, Partially energized. ~360 MW across ten simple-cycle turbines (some GE Vernova), permitted for onsite/data-center use only; behind-the-meter while ERCOT interconnection is built. Site went live Sept 2025.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 64.5 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 04:00). Stargate Abilene's announced 1.20 GW would be 1.9% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Taylor County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Stargate Abilene on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2026-03-01

    Nvidia Blackwell chips filling ~0.3 GW of energized capacity across 4 of 8 buildings; ramping toward 1.2 GW

    reported

    Data Center Knowledge

  2. as of 2025-01-21

    GB200 NVL72 racks part of the Blackwell buildout

    reported

    OpenAI

Why here

Stargate Abilene sits on private land in Texas, Abilene. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on mixed power, interconnection is Grid connected, with on-site generation alongside: power comes from a mix of on-site natural gas and grid supply that includes local West Texas wind. As of April 2026 about 0.3 GW was operational against a planned 1.2 GW, so most of the campus is not yet energised.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Total JV capital for 1.2 GW Abilene campus
$15B. Crusoe / Blue Owl joint venture; eight buildings journalist report
Phase-2 debt and equity financing (six buildings)
$11.6B. Managed by Blue Owl's Real Assets platform with Primary Digital Infrastructure journalist report
First-phase construction loan
$7.1B. Initial construction loan for the first two buildings journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

GPUs
450,000 GB200 source

Estimated compute: the claimed 450,000 GB200 chips are on the order of 260x the compute used to train a GPT-4-class model. Derived from the chip-count claim, not measured (basis).

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    financier: JPMorgan
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

5e637e75-ee05-435d-91ce-18fa574c2eff · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Stargate Abilene?
Stargate Abilene is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Abilene. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Stargate Abilene use?
Stargate Abilene has 1.20 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0.30 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 0.90 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Stargate Abilene?
Oracle is recorded as a party to Stargate Abilene on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Stargate Abilene operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Stargate Abilene is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Stargate Abilene?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Stargate Abilene: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/stargate-abilene

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