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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Stargate Lordstown Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle
- Address and locality
- Lordstown · Trumbull County · Ohio
- Official metro area
- Youngstown-Warren, OH
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 5 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001363
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
- FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 23 September 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority) — statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025–2026) · Ohio Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Lordstown sits in FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison territory (eastern PJM); sources cite "affordable electricity from FirstEnergy and American Electric Power" and FirstEnergy's high-voltage transmission. FirstEnergy completed a $30M grid upgrade (2019–2022) anticipating large industrial load. DISCREPANCY: the existing poweredBy field says "on-site natural gas generators" (the adjacent independently-owned Lordstown Energy Center is a separate gas plant); on-site generation for the data center is not confirmed in site-specific filings. …
Water. SoftBank spokesperson: "The Lordstown site will also use a closed-loop cooling system that is designed to reduce water consumption." Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk (via AP): "These data centers are designed to not use water." No site-specific MGD figure published.
Community. Local officials and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber described the SoftBank acquisition and Stargate/Foxconn manufacturing partnership as a 'transformational investment.' (A separate Lordstown data-center moratorium and lawsuit involved an unrelated developer, not this SoftBank/Foxconn site.)
What the source record says
Planned 1,500 MW is a long-term campus ceiling, not a near-term operational figure: a SoftBank spokesperson said the initial SoftBank/OpenAI data center uses "a small part" of the 6.2M-sq-ft site, which also hosts a Foxconn/SoftBank hub manufacturing modular data-center equipment. Crescent Dune LLC (a SoftBank affiliate) acquired the site from Foxconn for $375M (Sept 2025, Trumbull County Auditor). SoftBank's "up to $3 billion" is a ceiling covering both manufacturing and the data center — no data-center-only investment figure is confirmed.
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 · source-reported proposed
One of five new Stargate sites; SoftBank investing $3B to convert former GM EV plant into modular AI data center factory
- 2025 · source-reported under construction
Ground broken; using former Lordstown Motors / GM assembly plant; modular prefab data center approach
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.
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites — OpenAI · OpenAI
- Lordstown part of $500B AI data center project — WFMJ · WFMJ
- Documents Shed Light on Potential Expansion at Foxconn's Lordstown Plant · Business Journal Daily
- Positive economic news bolsters Valley in 2025 · Tribune Chronicle
- Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers · Data Center Frontier
- Data center to occupy 'small part' of Lordstown AI hub; 'advanced' design · WFMJ
- Ohio committed at least $2.3B in data-center sales-tax breaks · Signal Ohio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID stargate-lordstown-oh. 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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001363
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
- Lordstown, OH · Trumbull (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 23 September 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-09-23 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority) — statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025–2026) · Ohio
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-05
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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