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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Stargate Abilene.
Exact source coordinates (provider label); this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe
- Address and locality
- Abilene · Taylor County · Texas
- Official metro area
- Abilene, TX
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001362
Measure or phase boundary remains unresolved in the captured provider context. New 300 MW operational value has no supporting row note or quantitative source label; preserve prior planned value pending explicit reread. The upstream row remains attributed below, but this value is not repeated as site capacity.
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- AEP Texas
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $3.5 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 21 January 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) · City of Abilene, Texas · 2025 Open cited source →
- 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) · Taylor County, Texas · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Epoch AI: power currently supplied by a mix of on-site natural gas and grid power within AEP's service territory; operator has cited plans for on-site and regional green generation.
Water. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling with a zero-water-evaporation closed-loop system (per Measured AI, ~12,625 gallons per building per year). Mayor stated the facility would use less than 1% of Abilene's daily water. reportedMgd omitted — only per-building annual volume disclosed.
Community. Abilene City Council unanimously approved the abatement; Taylor County sought additional citizen input before finalizing. Residents raised concerns about energy reliability and possible groundwater contamination, and an opposition group (saveabilene.com) formed, alongside broad local economic support. The abatement contractually requires 357 permanent jobs at a minimum $57,600 salary.
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 · source-reported proposed
Announced as flagship Stargate campus at White House event; $500B national AI infrastructure commitment
- 2025-02 · source-reported under construction
Ground broken; Crusoe providing infrastructure; ~4 of 8 buildings reported operational by late 2025
- 2026-09-08 · source-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
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001362
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Abilene, TX · Taylor (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 21 January 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-01-21 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-02 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-09-08 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not established; source review excludes the published figure
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: AEP Texas
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3.5 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) · City of Abilene, Texas · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) · Taylor County, Texas · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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