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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe
- Address and locality
- Abilene · Taylor County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 8 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001362
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
- 2025-01-21 · reported proposed
Announced as flagship Stargate campus at White House event; $500B national AI infrastructure commitment
- 2025-02 · reported under construction
Ground broken; Crusoe providing infrastructure; ~4 of 8 buildings reported operational by late 2025
- 2026-09-08 · reported operational
Buildings 1-4 of the 8-building campus are confirmed operational (509k H100-equivalents, 421 MW IT power) and running OpenAI training/inference on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as of 2026-07-28; buildings 5-8 are structurally complete but not yet confirmed operational.
Sources and attribution
- Announcing the Stargate Project — OpenAI · OpenAI
- Stargate LLC — Wikipedia · Wikipedia
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand — Epoch AI · Epoch AI
- Stargate Data Centers Site-by-Site: Status, Dependencies, and What to Watch · Measured AI
- Stargate data center poised to complete construction this year in Abilene · Texas Standard
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · Epoch AI
- Taylor County residents raise concerns on tax breaks at commissioners meeting · KTXS News
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene | AI Data Centers · Epoch AI
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID stargate-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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