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Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)

Vantage Data Centers — Frontier is an AI data center campus developed by Vantage Data Centers in Texas, Albany (Shackelford County). 1.40 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.

Under construction · Vantage Data Centers · Private land · ERCOT · Albany (Shackelford County), Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1.40 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

25th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses41st by energized capacity78th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 1,134,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) capacity claims
Source
Announced1.40 GW2025-08-19claimedpress release
Energized0 GW2026-08-17reportedjournalist report
Under construction1.40 GW2026-01-01reportedjournalist report

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

1.40 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Vantage Data Centers

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

1.40 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The story of Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)
Announced capex
$25B
Cooling
Closed-loop chiller system, air cooling paired with liquid-to-liquid; operator targets water use efficiency near zero
Grid
ERCOT · Not published. Vantage's own campus page describes multiple diverse power feeds and N+1 redundancy across mechanical and electrical systems, and says nothing about ERCOT, substations, on-site generation or an interconnection position for a 1.4 GW campus.
Tenant
OpenAI
Derived
Cost per MW
$18M/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.

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The deal

grid operator
ERCOT · Texas grid region; campus designed off-grid via on-site gas.
developer
Vantage Data Centers · Owns and builds the campus; backed by DigitalBridge/Silver Lake.
tenant
OpenAI · Confirmed Stargate site; OpenAI is the anchor tenant.

Power

Power source
behind the meter gas
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Not published. Vantage's own campus page describes multiple diverse power feeds and N+1 redundancy across mechanical and electrical systems, and says nothing about ERCOT, substations, on-site generation or an interconnection position for a 1.4 GW campus.
Water
Closed-loop chillers, with no measured figure yet. Vantage says the campus pairs air cooling with liquid-to-liquid cooling on a closed-loop chiller system and targets water use efficiency near zero. That is a design target from the operator, published before the first building opens in the second half of 2026.

Frontier behind-the-meter natural gas microgrid (phase 1), 0.70 GW gas, Permitted. ~210 generators, ~700 MW phase-one per TCEQ air-quality registrations; off-grid microgrid to avoid ERCOT queue.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 62.3 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 16:00). Vantage Data Centers — Frontier's announced 1.40 GW would be 2.2% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Severe drought (D2) in Shackelford County, week of 2026-09-08 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Vantage Data Centers — Frontier sits on private land in Texas, Albany (Shackelford County). It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on behind the meter gas power, interconnection is Not published. Vantage's own campus page describes multiple diverse power feeds and N+1 redundancy across mechanical and electrical systems, and says nothing about ERCOT, substations, on-site generation or an interconnection position for a 1.4 GW campus.. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Total announced investment in Frontier
$25B press release

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

Cooling
Closed-loop chiller system, air cooling paired with liquid-to-liquid; operator targets water use efficiency near zero source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    claim recorded
    metric:cooling_type
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

438db243-7f68-4021-9f3f-0e6d09ca5fcf · 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 Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)?
Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Albany (Shackelford County). DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) use?
Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) has 1.40 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1.40 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)?
Vantage Data Centers is recorded as a party to Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX) is under construction. 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 Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)?
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). Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/vantage-frontier-shackelford-county

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