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Stargate Abilene

Deep dive: Stargate Abilene: 1.2 GW, four of eight live

Also known as OpenAI/Oracle Stargate flagship

Operated by Oracle at Lancium Clean Campus (Abilene) .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- Designed and built by Crusoe at the Lancium Clean Campus	Crusoe	-	Reported	crusoe.ai
Accelerator	NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Accelerators Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4NP Oracle began delivering the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June 2025	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Verified	crusoe.ai group.softbank
Cooling	Direct-to-chip cold plate Cooling Cold plate on the package, air for the remainder · Removes roughly 50-80 percent of node heat to liquid direct-to-chip liquid cooling via a zero-water evaporation cooling system	Crusoe	-	Reported	crusoe.ai

AI datacenter metrics

Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.

Metric	Value	As of	Basis	Note	Source
Accelerators	201,600 accelerators	2026-05-23	Third-party estimate	Epoch AI chip estimate, latest per chip type (B200+B300); some rows are company disclosures, others modelled.	epoch.ai
Stated investment	15 USD bn	2025-05	Operator stated	Crusoe, Blue Owl and Primary Digital joint venture to fund the 1.2 GW eight-building campus; a financing figure, not an audited build cost	crusoe.ai
Facility power	590 MW	2026-07-28	Third-party estimate	Epoch AI modelled gross facility power (IT plus cooling and overhead) at this timeline date.	epoch.ai
Facility power	1,200 MW	2026-03	Design target	Crusoe release describes the existing Abilene site as 1.2 GW across eight buildings; design capacity, not measured draw; excludes the new 900 MW Microsoft campus	crusoe.ai
IT power	421 MW	2026-07-28	Third-party estimate	Epoch AI modelled IT power from satellite imagery and permits at this timeline date; not operator-stated.	epoch.ai
PUE	1.3	2024-12	Design target	Crusoe Impact Report 2024: data centers designed for average PUE of 1.2 to 1.3, Abilene included; upper bound shown, not measured	cdn.prod.website-files.com

How it is powered

Source	Provider	MW	Status	As of	Basis	Note	Source link
Grid	-	1,200	planned	2025-03	Design target	Crusoe states a 1.2 GW grid interconnection (ERCOT) for the campus. Epoch: 200 MW substation built, a 1 GW substation near completion by Jul 2026.	crusoe.ai epoch.ai
Grid	American Electric Power	200	operating	2026-07	Third-party estimate	Epoch: 200 MW substation (built 2022, expanded 2024) serves the first buildings. Epoch lists American Electric Power as the energy company for the site.	epoch.ai epoch.ai
On-site gas	Crusoe	360	operating	2026-07	Regulatory filing	Texas Tribune: 360 MW on-site gas plant of 10 turbines under TCEQ minor permits; a proposed expansion adds 41 turbines. Epoch counts 10 turbines by imagery.	texastribune.org epoch.ai
Battery storage	Crusoe	-	planned	2025-03	Operator stated	Crusoe says the Lancium power plan includes large-scale behind-the-meter battery storage; no MW or MWh stated.	crusoe.ai
Wind and solar	-	-	planned	2025-03	Operator stated	Crusoe cites behind-the-meter solar and use of nearby wind; Epoch lists local wind. No capacity or contract disclosed.	crusoe.ai epoch.ai

How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.

The read

Crusoe built the campus and Oracle operates it as OCI capacity for OpenAI; Crusoe and the joint OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank release both say Oracle began delivering NVIDIA GB200 racks in June 2025 and that the site is running. Campus power capacity is stated as 1.2 GW across eight buildings, which is a design capacity and not a measured draw, so power is blank. No installed accelerator count is stated by any operator (Crusoe says up to 50,000 GB200 NVL72 per building, which is ambiguous between racks and GPUs), so no quantity is recorded, and an analyst estimate that names B200 and B300 parts is not used because it contradicts the operators. Later buildings were still being commissioned in 2026.

Timeline

2025-06 First operational source

Site & facility

Lancium Clean Campus (Abilene)

Location: Abilene, TX, USA
Cooling: Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
Commissioned: 2025

crusoe.ai group.softbank

Where sources disagree

We record conflicts instead of picking a winner quietly. All open questions.

Installed GPU count: Up to 50,000 GB200 NVL72 per building (Crusoe) against About 201,600 B200 or B300 (analyst estimate). Crusoe's wording is ambiguous between racks and GPUs and the estimate names different parts, so no count is recorded.

Change history

2026-10-04 AI datacenter metrics: Stargate Abilene
2026-09-19 Stargate Abilene added, verified on Crusoe and the joint OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank release

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
group.softbank	names system and part	NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
crusoe.ai	names system and part	NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.