# Stargate 1

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Stargate 1 is the operating and expanding AI data-center campus at Lancium’s Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas. Crusoe designed and built the first phase for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workloads supporting OpenAI. Two buildings and more than 200 MW were operating by September 2025, while the planned eight-building campus carries a 1.2 GW ERCOT-approved interconnection. AEP Texas serves the site, whose phased electrical design also includes onsite generation, storage, and flexible-load capabilities intended to respond to grid conditions.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: expanding
- Asset scope: campus
- Location: 5502 Spinks Rd, Abilene, Taylor County, TX
- Operator: Crusoe (campus) — https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-announces-flagship-abilene-data-center-is-live
- Developer: Crusoe (campus) — https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-expands-ai-data-center-campus-in-abilene-to-1-2-gigawatts
- Developer: Lancium (campus) — https://lancium.com/locations-abilene
- Landowner: Lancium (campus) — https://lancium.com/locations-abilene
- Tenant: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) (campus) — https://oracle.com/data-centers/abilene
- Cloud customer: OpenAI (campus) — https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/

## Power and grid context

- Interconnection request: 1,200 MW · approved · campus · Full campus · as of 2025-03-18 — Total campus power capacity and ERCOT-approved grid interconnection for the planned eight-building campus.
- Energized power: 200 MW · operating · phase · Initial phase · as of 2025-09-30 — Initial phase comprising two buildings; Crusoe reported this phase as 200+ MW and it was energized and operating by September 30, 2025.
- Utility service: 200 MW · energized · campus · Initial utility infrastructure · as of 2024-12-01 — Original Abilene substation constructed for the initial campus power-delivery phase at 138 kV.
- Utility service: 1,000 MW · energized · campus · Expansion utility infrastructure · as of 2026-03-10 — Greenfield substation constructed to support long-term campus growth at 345 kV; fully energized using temporary transformers on March 10, 2026.
- Onsite generation: 360.5 MW · approved · campus · Onsite generation · as of 2025-01-22 — Permitted onsite natural-gas turbine configuration: five Titan 350 turbines rated at 38 MW each and five GE LM2500 turbines rated at 34.1 MW each, for a combined site-rated total of 360.5 MW. The permit states the units are for onsite data-center and computing use.
- ISO/RTO: ERCOT
- Balancing authority: ERCOT
- Electric utility: AEP Texas
- Point of interconnection: A 300-foot slack-span connection to the Abilene Northwest transmission line, with transmission and interconnection expansion work coordinated with AEP.
- Substation: The site uses the Abilene substation, initially a 200 MW, 138 kV facility, with a 1 GW, 345 kV greenfield substation constructed for campus expansion.
- Interconnection voltage: 345 kV

## Development

- Site status: Operating and expanding: the first two buildings are operational for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure workloads supporting OpenAI, while the six-building expansion was announced with construction begun and an expected mid-2026 construction completion.
- Site area: 1,000 acres
- Gross floor area: 4,000,000 square feet
- Buildings: 8
- Construction: Stargate 1 is a multi-building AI data-center campus at Lancium's Clean Campus in Abilene. Construction began in June 2024. Phase 1 comprises two buildings totaling 980,000 sq. ft. and 200+ MW; the first two buildings were energized within a year and the campus was announced operational on September 30, 2025. Phase 2 began construction in March 2025 and adds six buildings, bringing the planned campus total to eight buildings, approximately 4 million sq. ft., and 1.2 GW of total capacity. Phase 2 was expected to reach construction completion in mid-2026; no separate commercial-operation date is stated.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: hyperscale, cloud, ai_hpc
- Workloads: AI training, AI inference
- Announced tenants: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OpenAI
- Critical IT load: 200 MW
- Operating context: Crusoe-developed, purpose-built AI data-center campus. Its first phase is operational on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for OpenAI, while the broader campus continues expanding.

## Sources

- [About Crusoe | AI-Optimized cloud infrastructure](http://crusoe.ai/about/company)
- [http://crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-and-lancium-announce-1-gigawatt-ai-data-center-campus-in-childress-texas](http://crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-and-lancium-announce-1-gigawatt-ai-data-center-campus-in-childress-texas)
- [Crusoe Announces Flagship Abilene Data Center is Live](http://crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-announces-flagship-abilene-data-center-is-live)
- [Crusoe expands Abilene AI campus to 1.2 GW | Crusoe](http://crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-expands-ai-data-center-campus-in-abilene-to-1-2-gigawatts)
- [Crusoe's Abilene data center campus officially live, serving ...](http://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoes-abilene-data-center-officially-live-serving-oracle-and-openais-stargate)
- [Crusoe Cloud: Abilene Data Center - Building 7](http://datacenters.com/crusoe-cloud-abilene-building-7)
- [Fetched web page](http://digitalbuilding.com/projects/crusoe-energy-ai-data-center-on-lancium-clean-campus)
- [About ERCOT](http://ercot.com/about)
- [Large Load Integration](http://ercot.com/services/rq/large-load-integration)
- [Construction on Stargate One data center campus set to run through early 2027](http://ktxs.com/news/local/lancium-crusoe-executives-brief-abilene-leaders-on-major-northside-investment)
- [Neighborhood residents frustrated by traffic from Lancium data center project in Abilene](http://ktxs.com/news/local/neighborhood-residents-frustrated-by-traffic-from-lancium-data-center-project-in-abilene)
- [Lancium Secures $600 Million Debt Financing to Advance Clean Campus Development, Starting with 1.2 GW Abilene Site - lancium](http://lancium.com/2025/10/16/lancium-secures-600-million-debt-financing)
- [Lancium Clean Campus Locations - Abilene - lancium](http://lancium.com/locations-abilene)
- [Crusoe Energy Systems LLC GHGPSDTX263 — Abilene, TX | MLQ Infrastructure](http://mlq.ai/permit-filings/usa/texas/abilene/ghgpsdtx263)
- [Crusoe Energy Systems LLC PSDTX1688 — Abilene, TX | MLQ Infrastructure](http://mlq.ai/permit-filings/usa/texas/abilene/psdtx1688)
- [Abilene AI Data Center & Power Delivery | Mortenson](http://mortenson.com/projects/abilene-data-center-development)
- [abilenetx.api.civicclerk.com](https://abilenetx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=4468,plainText=false))
- [Tax Abatements | Abilene, TX](https://abilenetx.gov/2476/Tax-Abatements)
- [The Totally Easy Agenda: Abilene City Council - August 25, 2025](https://abilenetx.gov/CivicSend/ViewMessage/message/268849)
- [Taylor County and City of Abilene Announce Historic Partnership with Lancium for Development of a $2.4 Billion Data Center Campus](https://abilenetx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16123/DCOA-Lancium-news-release)
- [April 10, 2025](https://abilenetx.portal.civicclerk.com/event/2853/files/attachment/25051)
- [Foreman, Cholla Energy score patent win in dispute with Lancium - Blockspace Media](https://blockspace.media/insight/foreman-cholla-energy-score-patent-win-in-dispute-with-lancium/)
- [Petition · Stop the building and expansion of data centers in Abilene, TX - Abilene, United States · Change.org](https://change.org/p/stop-the-building-and-expansion-of-data-centers-in-abilene-tx)
- [An inside look at the Abilene AI data center](https://crusoe.ai/blog/an-inside-look-at-the-abilene-ai-data-center/)
- [The Development Corporation of Abilene, City of Abilene, and Taylor County Announce Expanded Development within Lancium’s Clean Campus through Crusoe’s 998,000 Square Foot Data Center Project | Development Corporation of Abilene](https://developabilene.com/2024/11/19/the-development-corporation-of-abilene-city-of-abilene-and-taylor-county-announce-expanded-development-within-lanciums-clean-campus-through-crusoes-998000-square-foot-data-center/)
- [~ > X E T ~](https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/58481_40_1567878.PDF)
- [Interchange - Filings](https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/search/filings?ControlNumber=58484)
- [Country living disrupted by Lancium Project construction, residents voice concerns](https://ktxs.com/news/local/country-living-disrupted-by-lancium-project-construction-residents-voice-concerns) — KTXS · 2025-07-10
- [Construction on Stargate One data center campus set to run through early 2027](https://ktxs.com/news/local/lancium-crusoe-executives-brief-abilene-leaders-on-major-northside-investment) — KTXS · 2026-03-05
- [Man injured by construction truck seeks changes amid Lancium data center project](https://ktxs.com/news/local/man-injured-by-construction-truck-seeks-changes-amid-lancium-data-center-project) — KTXS · 2025-05-29
- [Neighborhood residents frustrated by traffic from Lancium data center project in Abilene](https://ktxs.com/news/local/neighborhood-residents-frustrated-by-traffic-from-lancium-data-center-project-in-abilene) — KTXS · 2025-09-24
- [Abilene Reporter News Highlights Progress on Abilene Clean Campus - lancium](https://lancium.com/2022/08/01/abilene-reporter-news-highlights-progress-on-abilene-clean-campus/)
- [Lancium Breaks Ground on Abilene Clean Campus](https://lancium.com/2022/11/07/lancium-breaks-ground-on-abilene-clean-campus/)
- [Crusoe to Build Initial 200MW AI Data Center With Plans ...](https://lancium.com/2024/07/18/crusoe-lancium-clean-campus/)
- [Crusoe Expands AI Data Center Campus in Abilene to 1.2 ...](https://lancium.com/2025/03/18/crusoe-expands-ai-data-center-campus-in-abilene-to-1-2-gigawatts/)
- [Lancium Clean Campus Locations - Abilene - lancium](https://lancium.com/locations-abilene)
- [Lancium Clean Campus Locations - Abilene - lancium](https://lancium.com/locations-abilene/)
- [OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites | OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/)
- [Stargate Community | OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/stargate-community/)
- [Abilene Data Centers | Oracle](https://oracle.com/data-centers/abilene)

## Data quality

- The evidence clearly distinguishes the exact campus as Stargate 1, also called the Lancium Clean Campus or Crusoe Abilene campus, but several public sources use the broader label “Abilene AI Data Center.”
- Reported economic-benefit and employment figures vary by phase and source. The $30 million annual figure and the 9,000-construction-job/1,000-ongoing-job figures come from Oracle’s campus-level materials; other sources report narrower initial-phase estimates.
- The evidence supports community concerns about construction traffic, noise, safety, water, power, lighting, and transparency. These are reported concerns or statements by residents and officials, not independent findings that the completed facility caused those impacts.
- No confirmed lawsuit or site-specific litigation involving Stargate 1, the Lancium Clean Campus, or the Crusoe Abilene campus was identified. A separate Lancium patent dispute appears in the evidence but is not identified as litigation over the Abilene site.
- The campus is operating and expanding. Articles about other Texas data-center projects, including projects in Shackelford County, Taylor, Clyde, or unrelated operator sites, were excluded from the exact-asset findings.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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