# Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)

AI data center campus tracked on DEPLOY: announced-vs-energized capacity, each figure dated and sourced.

- **Canonical ID:** 438db243-7f68-4021-9f3f-0e6d09ca5fcf
- **Type:** AI data center campus
- **Location:** Albany (Shackelford County), Texas, United States
- **Lifecycle state:** under_construction
- **Announced capacity (GW):** 1.4
- **Energized capacity (GW):** 0
- **Announced-to-energized gap (GW):** 1.4

## Capacity ledger (append-only, dated, sourced)

- announced: 1.4 GW · claimed · as of 2025-08-19 · https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-unveils-plans-for-frontier-a-25b-mega-campus-in-texas-to-meet-unprecedented-ai-demand/
- energized: 0 GW · reported · as of 2026-08-17 · https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-texas-gigawatt-data-center-campus-for-openai/
- under_construction: 1.4 GW · reported · as of 2026-01-01 · https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-texas-gigawatt-data-center-campus-for-openai/

## Parties

- Vantage Data Centers (developer): https://registry.deploy.report/companies/vantage-data-centers
- OpenAI (tenant): https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai

## 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.

**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.

## Sources

- Vantage unveils Frontier, a $25B mega-campus in Texas: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-unveils-plans-for-frontier-a-25b-mega-campus-in-texas-to-meet-unprecedented-ai-demand/
- Vantage breaks ground on Texas gigawatt data center campus for OpenAI: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-texas-gigawatt-data-center-campus-for-openai/
- New off-grid Texas data center to run on ~700MW natural gas microgrid: https://www.constructionowners.com/news/oracle-and-openai-to-power-new-texas-data-center-off-the-grid
- Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers: https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55319132/scaling-stargate-openais-five-new-us-data-centers-push-toward-10-gw-ai-infrastructure
- Shackelford County, Texas Data Center Campus: https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/shackelford-county-tx

Canonical: https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/vantage-frontier-shackelford-county
JSON: https://registry.deploy.report/v1/datacenters/vantage-frontier-shackelford-county