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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- OpenAI / SoftBank (SB Energy)
- Address and locality
- Milam County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001364
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
- 2025-09-23 · reported proposed
One of five new Stargate sites announced; SB Energy providing powered infrastructure on 595-acre site ~70 miles NE of Austin
- 2025 · reported under construction
Steel framing and roofing visible in satellite imagery; first building delivery targeted October 2025
Sources and attribution
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand — Epoch AI · Epoch AI
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites — OpenAI · OpenAI
- SB Energy to build and operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas — Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics
- OpenAI Stargate's Milam 'Freebird' data center to span 548,950 sq ft in first phase ($470M) — Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics
- SoftBank's SB Energy plans $3 billion Texas data center — The Real Deal · The Real Deal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID stargate-milam-county-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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