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Stargate Abilene Data Center
OpenAI is the primary tenant at the Stargate Abilene data center in Abilene, Taylor County. AI Training + Inference compute for ChatGPT is consumed here.
| Tenant: | OpenAI |
| Facility: | Stargate Abilene |
| Operator: | OpenAI / Oracle (OCI) / Crusoe (developer) / Lancium (campus) |
| Location: | Abilene, Taylor County |
| Capacity (MW): | 1,200 |
| Status: | Operational (partial) |
| Type: | AI Supercluster |
| Workload: | AI Training + Inference |
| Product: | ChatGPT |
| Power: | On-site gas (VoltaGrid) + ERCOT grid, wind |
| GPU: | Nvidia GB200 / GB300 |
| Operational: | 2026 |
| Investment (B): | 11 |
Notes: Stargate's flagship. Eight buildings, roughly 4M sq ft on 875 acres, 1.2 GW planned; about 0.3 GW live across four buildings as of mid-2026, targeting 450,000+ GB200 GPUs. First OCI capacity live Sep 2025. A planned 2.1 GW expansion was reversed and redirected elsewhere; Crusoe took the adjacent 900 MW campus for Microsoft .