Data Center Registry
Stargate Abilene
Abilene, Taylor County, Texas · All 6 OpenAI sites · Every OpenAI and Oracle case on our tracker
Stargate Abilene is an operating data center in Abilene, Texas (Taylor County), operated by OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe. The public record puts it at announced January 21, 2025, 1.2 GW planned, 800 acres, a reported $3.5 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Abilene, Taylor County, TX
- Coordinates
- 32.4487, -99.7331
- Power capacity
- 1.2 GW planned
- Land
- 800 acres
- Investment
- $3.5 billion
- Announced
- January 21, 2025
- Utility
- AEP Texas
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement), City of Abilene, Texas, 2025 | 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement), Taylor County, Texas, 2025
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- September 8, 2026OperatingBuildings 1-4 of the 8-building campus are confirmed operational (509k H100-equivalents, 421 MW IT power) and running OpenAI training/inference on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as of 2026-07-28; buildings 5-8 are structurally complete but not yet confirmed operational. Source: Epoch AI
- February 2025Under constructionGround broken; Crusoe providing infrastructure; ~4 of 8 buildings reported operational by late 2025 Source: Wikipedia
- January 21, 2025ProposedAnnounced as flagship Stargate campus at White House event; $500B national AI infrastructure commitment Source: OpenAI
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Stargate Abilene in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Abilene City Council unanimously approved the abatement; Taylor County sought additional citizen input before finalizing.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Abilene City Council unanimously approved the abatement; Taylor County sought additional citizen input before finalizing. Residents raised concerns about energy reliability and possible groundwater contamination, and an opposition group (saveabilene.com) formed, alongside broad local economic support. The abatement contractually requires 357 permanent jobs at a minimum $57,600 salary.
Power and water
Epoch AI: power currently supplied by a mix of on-site natural gas and grid power within AEP's service territory; operator has cited plans for on-site and regional green generation.
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling with a zero-water-evaporation closed-loop system (per Measured AI, ~12,625 gallons per building per year). Mayor stated the facility would use less than 1% of Abilene's daily water. reportedMgd omitted, only per-building annual volume disclosed.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) | Not established | City of Abilene, Texas | 2025 |
| 85% property tax abatement (10-year reinvestment-zone agreement) | Not established | Taylor County, Texas | 2025 |
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Lancium Clean Campus (Crusoe / Stargate Site 1) · Abilene · Crusoe5 mi · Operating · 1.2 GW · Supported
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Stargate Abilene data center in Abilene?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Stargate Abilene in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Abilene City Council unanimously approved the abatement; Taylor County sought additional citizen input before finalizing.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stargate Abilene data center?
No lawsuit over Stargate Abilene appears in the record we track as of September 8, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Stargate Abilene use?
No water withdrawal figure for Stargate Abilene is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Stargate Abilene, and how big is it?
OpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 1.2 GW. The site is recorded at 800 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate Abilene," updated September 8, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-abilene-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/stargate-abilene-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Announcing the Stargate Project, OpenAI · OpenAI · retrieved July 5, 2026
- 2.Stargate LLC, Wikipedia · Wikipedia · retrieved July 5, 2026
- 3.OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand, Epoch AI · Epoch AI · retrieved July 5, 2026
- 4.Stargate Data Centers Site-by-Site: Status, Dependencies, and What to Watch · Measured AI · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 5.Stargate data center poised to complete construction this year in Abilene · Texas Standard · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 6.OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · Epoch AI · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 7.Taylor County residents raise concerns on tax breaks at commissioners meeting · KTXS News · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 8.OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand, Epoch AI · Epoch AI · retrieved August 16, 2026
- 9.OpenAI Stargate Abilene | AI Data Centers · Epoch AI · retrieved September 8, 2026
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