Supercomputers/Systems/Stargate Shackelford County (Frontier)
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Stargate Shackelford County (Frontier)
Also known as Vantage Frontier
Operated by Oracle at Vantage Frontier Campus (Shackelford County) .
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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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
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 |
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| Integrator | - Vantage Data Centers develops the 1.4 GW, ten-building Frontier campus | Vantage Data Centers | - | Reported | vantage-dc.comconstructionowners.com |
| Cooling | - Air-cooled and liquid-to-liquid cooling on a closed-loop chilled-water system for racks above 250 kW | Vantage Data Centers | - | Reported | vantage-dc.com |
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 |
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| Stated investment | 25 USD bn | 2025-08 | Operator stated | Vantage: $25 bn Frontier campus, ten data centers on 1,200 acres; Vantage figure, not OpenAI or Oracle | vantage-dc.com |
| Facility power | 1,400 MW | 2025-08 | Design target | Vantage: 1.4 GW Frontier campus, ten buildings; later tied to Oracle/OpenAI Stargate; planned capacity, first building 2H 2026 | vantage-dc.comconstructionowners.com |
| Rack power | 250 kW | 2025-08 | Design target | Vantage: campus can accommodate ultra high-density racks of 250 kW or more with liquid cooling; capability, not a measured load | vantage-dc.com |
How it is powered
| Source | Provider | MW | Status | As of | Basis | Note | Source link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-site gas | VoltaGrid | 2,580 | planned | 2026-04 | Third-party estimate | Off-grid gas microgrid; Cleanview tallies INNIO Jenbacher engines at 2.58 GW gross. Epoch confirms on-site gas. Oracle-VoltaGrid 2.3 GW deal names only Texas. | cleanview.coepoch.ai |
How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.
The read
Vantage Data Centers' 1.4 GW Frontier campus in Shackelford County, Texas, ten single-story buildings totalling 3.7 million square feet on 1,200 acres, with racks above 250 kW and a mix of air and liquid-to-liquid cooling on a closed-loop chilled-water system. Vantage's own announcement (19 August 2025) gives the capacity, buildings and a first-building delivery in the second half of 2026 but does not mention Oracle or OpenAI; a December 2025 groundbreaking report ties the campus to the Oracle and OpenAI Stargate expansion, and Epoch AI's Stargate site tracker separately lists Shackelford as a Stargate site with Vantage as developer, while giving a larger projected capacity of 2.0 GW than Vantage's own 1.4 GW. Oracle is recorded as operator on the strength of that Stargate association and to match the Stargate Abilene row. No accelerator type or count has been published, and power is blank because 1.4 GW is a campus design capacity.
Timeline
- 2025-08-19 Announced source
Site & facility
Vantage Frontier Campus (Shackelford County)
- Location
- Shackelford County, TX, USA
- Cooling
- Air and liquid-to-liquid, closed-loop chilled water
Change history
- 2026-10-04 AI datacenter metrics: Stargate Shackelford County (Frontier)
- 2026-10-01 Added Stargate Shackelford County (Frontier) (Oracle)
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 |
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| vantage-dc.com | could not be fetched | - |
| constructionowners.com | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.