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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Crusoe
- Address and locality
- Abilene · Taylor County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 200 MW; Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000856
What the source record says
Originally proposed Dec 2021 as Lancium's "Project Artemis" — a Bitcoin-mining and grid-demand-response campus using stranded/curtailed West Texas wind and solar power, with Lancium throttling load during ERCOT peak demand. Crusoe Energy has since built and operates AI/HPC data-center buildings on the site (publicly branded "Stargate Site 1"), with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as the tenant hosting NVIDIA GPU clusters for OpenAI's Stargate project — Oracle sits contractually between Crusoe and OpenAI; no confirmed direct OpenAI-Crusoe lease. Lancium retains land/electrical-infrastructure ownership; Crusoe leases and operates part of an approximately 800-1,000-acre campus. First 2 of 8 planned buildings (~200+ MW) were operational by mid-2025; remaining 6 are under construction, with a full 1.2 GW build-out targeted for completion in 2026-2027 (dates vary by source). Construction-workforce and total AI-era investment figures conflict significantly across sources (reported range: 2,000-9,000 workers; an unverified ~$11.6B raise) and are not repeated here as fact. Coordinates are approximate (geocoded from a listed street address, not parcel-confirmed — the ~800-1,000-acre campus could place any specific building up to ~1-2 miles from this point). Also known as the Lancium Clean Campus.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2021-12 · reported proposed
Lancium announces "Project Artemis": a Bitcoin-mining/grid-demand-response campus with Taylor County and the City of Abilene, projected at up to $2.4B over 20 years, scaling 200 MW to 1 GW.
- 2024 · reported under construction
Crusoe Energy begins building AI/HPC data-center buildings on the Lancium campus, pivoting the site from its original crypto-mining plan toward multi-tenant AI hosting (publicly branded "Stargate Site 1").
- 2025-06 · reported operational
First 2 of 8 planned buildings (~200+ MW) operational, hosting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GPU capacity for OpenAI's Stargate project.
Sources and attribution
- Taylor County and City of Abilene Announce Historic Partnership With Lancium · PR Newswire
- Crusoe Begins Construction on Second Phase of Abilene, Texas Data Center Campus · Data Center Dynamics
- Crusoe Adds 4.5 GW of Natural Gas to Fuel AI, Expands Abilene Data Center to 1.2 GW · Data Center Frontier
- Lancium, Crusoe Executives Brief Abilene Leaders on Major Northside Investment · KTXS (Sinclair)
- City of Abilene, Taylor County to Build Billion-Dollar Data Center to Host Bitcoin Mining · Bitcoin Magazine
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID lancium-crusoe-abilene-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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