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Stargate Lordstown (Ohio)

Stargate Lordstown is an AI data center campus developed by SoftBank Group in Ohio, Lordstown. 0.30 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Announced · SoftBank Group · Former industrial site · PJM · Lordstown, Ohio, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0.30 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

72nd-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses45th by energized capacity29th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 243,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2027. 15 months away. Claimed by SoftBank / OpenAI (source).

Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) capacity claims
Source
Announced0.30 GW2026-04-17claimedjournalist report
Announced1.50 GW2025-09-24claimedpress release
Energized0 GW2026-07-01reportedjournalist 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 Q2 2026 · live Q3 2026 · 3 mo build

2018-09-04Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-05-21Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-06-30Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-12Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-05-10Contains 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; 2 on record.

Building 2
Building sqft: 2,105,296
polygon on record (32 vertices)
Stargate Project
Building sqft: 1,893,319
polygon on record (39 vertices)

Manifest totals: 3,998,615 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

0.30 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

SoftBank Group

Developer

United States

Location

PJM

Grid

former industrial site

Land

0.30 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

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

Site legacy
Former Foxconn / Lordstown Motors EV plant (SoftBank-Foxconn JV acquired plant for ~$375M, Aug 2025)
Primary use
Modular server / equipment manufacturing (not primarily a data center)
Datacenter block
Up to ~0.3 GW planned (Epoch AI estimate)
Lifecycle
Announced (some land cleared, no large-scale construction visible as of mid-2026)
Cooling
Closed-loop, designed for zero water use (Oracle co-CEO)
SoftBank + OpenAI equity into SB Energy
$1B
Retooling investment
~$3B for modular data-center / AI server production
Grid operator
PJM Interconnection
Note on the 1.5 GW figure
OpenAI's 1.5 GW is the COMBINED SoftBank sites (Lordstown + Milam), not Lordstown alone

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The story of Stargate Lordstown (Ohio)
Announced capex
$375M
Grid
PJM · Not published. Coverage of the campus covers the $375 million purchase of the former Foxconn plant, SoftBank's build and a target of operation within the year, and says nothing about the utility, the connection or an interconnection position. Lordstown and a Texas site together are described as scaling to 1.5 GW over 18 months.
Tenant
OpenAI
Derived
Cost per MW
$1M/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 clusterOhio(141)

The deal

grid operator
PJM Interconnection · Northeast Ohio is in PJM; power expected from existing Foxconn substation / grid.
tenant
OpenAI · Anchor tenant / Stargate program lead.
chip supplier
NVIDIA · GPU supplier across the Stargate program.
developer
SoftBank Group · SoftBank/OpenAI-led site; SB Energy is the power/development subsidiary.
construction
Foxconn (Hon Hai) · SoftBank-Foxconn JV; former Foxconn EV plant repurposed for server/equipment manufacturing.
developer
Stargate Infrastructure

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
PJM
Interconnection
Not published. Coverage of the campus covers the $375 million purchase of the former Foxconn plant, SoftBank's build and a target of operation within the year, and says nothing about the utility, the connection or an interconnection position. Lordstown and a Texas site together are described as scaling to 1.5 GW over 18 months.
Water
Oracle co-CEO stated the site uses a closed-loop cooling system designed to not use water.

The PJM grid demand right now: 71.7 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 10:00). Stargate Lordstown's announced 0.30 GW would be 0.4% of the grid's current load.

County water status: No drought in Trumbull County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Stargate Lordstown sits on former industrial site in Ohio, Lordstown. It connects to the PJM grid, draws on grid power, interconnection is Not published. Coverage of the campus covers the $375 million purchase of the former Foxconn plant, SoftBank's build and a target of operation within the year, and says nothing about the utility, the connection or an interconnection position. Lordstown and a Texas site together are described as scaling to 1.5 GW over 18 months.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

OpenAI + SoftBank capital into SB Energy
$1B. Jan 2026: OpenAI and SoftBank each invested ~$500M in SoftBank's power subsidiary SB Energy to accelerate Stargate power/datacenter buildout; SB Energy-wide, not Lordstown-specific. journalist report
SoftBank acquisition of former Foxconn Ohio EV plant
$375M. Aug 2025 purchase of the Lordstown facility, converted to modular AI-server/equipment production under a SoftBank-Foxconn JV. journalist report
SoftBank acquisition of Lordstown plant
$375M. SoftBank acquired the former Foxconn/GM Lordstown plant (~6.2M sq ft); Foxconn continues to operate it journalist report
SoftBank's purchase of the former Foxconn plant
$375M. Covers the 6.2 million sq ft former GM assembly complex and its equipment, bought from Foxconn in August 2025. journalist report
Retooling for modular data center / AI server production
up to $3B. SoftBank could invest up to $3 billion to retool the facility (reported) 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
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    financial recorded
    land_purchase: SoftBank's purchase of the former Foxconn plant
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Announced

Sources

8eb98cdb-8ad1-4fe9-9385-f6c54e2db0b6 · 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 Lordstown (Ohio)?
Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Lordstown. 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 Lordstown (Ohio) use?
Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) has 0.30 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 0.30 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Stargate Lordstown (Ohio)?
SoftBank Group is recorded as a party to Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Stargate Lordstown (Ohio) is announced but not yet built. 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 Lordstown (Ohio)?
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 Lordstown (Ohio): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/stargate-lordstown-ohio

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