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Stargate Lordstown Campus

Lordstown, Trumbull County, Ohio · All 6 OpenAI sites · Every OpenAI and Oracle case on our tracker

Under constructionSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated October 16, 2026

Stargate Lordstown Campus is a data center under construction in Lordstown, Ohio (Trumbull County), operated by OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle. The public record puts it at announced September 23, 2025. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Lordstown, Trumbull County, OH
Coordinates: 41.1745, -80.8534
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: September 23, 2025
Utility: FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority), statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025 to 2026), Ohio
Community reception: Supported
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.

July 30, 2026
Under construction
Epoch AI satellite imagery: "Active construction visible on and around the datacenter, with the roofing mostly in place." Epoch AI reports no buildings operational yet. Source: Epoch AI
September 23, 2025
Proposed
One of five new Stargate sites; SoftBank investing $3B to convert former GM EV plant into modular AI data center factory Source: OpenAI
2025
Under construction
Ground broken; using former Lordstown Motors / GM assembly plant; modular prefab data center approach Source: WFMJ

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Stargate Lordstown Campus in Lordstown, Trumbull County, Ohio, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 16, 2026. Local officials and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber described the SoftBank acquisition and Stargate/Foxconn manufacturing partnership as a 'transformational investment.' (A separate Lordstown data-center moratorium and lawsuit involved an unrelated developer, not this SoftBank/Foxconn site.)

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Local officials and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber described the SoftBank acquisition and Stargate/Foxconn manufacturing partnership as a 'transformational investment.' (A separate Lordstown data-center moratorium and lawsuit involved an unrelated developer, not this SoftBank/Foxconn site.)

Source: Business Journal Daily

Power and water

Lordstown sits in FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison territory (eastern PJM); sources cite "affordable electricity from FirstEnergy and American Electric Power" and FirstEnergy's high-voltage transmission. FirstEnergy completed a $30M grid upgrade (2019 to 2022) anticipating large industrial load. On-site generation for the data center is not confirmed in site-specific filings; the adjacent, independently owned Lordstown Energy Center is a separate gas plant.

SoftBank spokesperson: "The Lordstown site will also use a closed-loop cooling system that is designed to reduce water consumption." Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk (via AP): "These data centers are designed to not use water." No site-specific MGD figure published.

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority), statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025 to 2026)	Not established	Ohio

Notes on the record

No capacity is recorded for this site alone: the September 2025 announcement said Lordstown and Milam County together "can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months," and gave no Lordstown-only figure. A SoftBank spokesperson said the initial SoftBank/OpenAI data center uses "a small part" of the 6.2M-sq-ft site, which also hosts a Foxconn/SoftBank hub manufacturing modular data-center equipment. Crescent Dune LLC (a SoftBank affiliate) acquired the site from Foxconn for $375M (Sept 2025, Trumbull County Auditor). SoftBank's "up to $3 billion" is a ceiling covering both manufacturing and the data center, no data-center-only investment figure is confirmed.

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.

Power capacity in megawatts
Permanent jobs promised
Land area

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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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.

Bristolville 25 · Lordstown · Bristolville 25 Developer LLC / BHGH Propertiesunder 1 mile · Proposed · In litigation
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SR-14 Data Center Proposal (Ravenna) · Ravenna · Ray Harner (landowner-developer)20 mi · Proposed · Opposed
Bitdeer Shalersville Data Center Campus · Shalersville Township · Bitdeer20 mi · Proposed · 750 MW · Contested
Powder Mills Data Center Campus · Stonebridge Associates26 mi · Proposed · In litigation
AgriFORCE Bitcoin Mining Facility, East Palestine · East Palestine · AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd.29 mi · Operating · 2 MW

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Stargate Lordstown Campus in Lordstown?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stargate Lordstown Campus?

The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.

How much water does Stargate Lordstown Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Stargate Lordstown Campus 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 Lordstown Campus, and how big is it?

OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate Lordstown Campus," updated October 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-lordstown-oh.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/stargate-lordstown-oh, retrieved October 29, 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.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites, OpenAI · OpenAI · retrieved July 5, 2026
2.Lordstown part of $500B AI data center project, WFMJ · WFMJ · retrieved July 5, 2026
3.Documents Shed Light on Potential Expansion at Foxconn's Lordstown Plant · Business Journal Daily · retrieved July 6, 2026
4.Positive economic news bolsters Valley in 2025 · Tribune Chronicle · retrieved July 6, 2026
5.Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers · Data Center Frontier · retrieved July 6, 2026
6.Data center to occupy 'small part' of Lordstown AI hub; 'advanced' design · WFMJ · retrieved July 6, 2026
7.Ohio committed at least $2.3B in data-center sales-tax breaks · Signal Ohio · retrieved July 6, 2026
8.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · SoftBank Group · retrieved October 16, 2026
9.OpenAI Stargate Lordstown | AI data centers · Epoch AI · retrieved October 16, 2026

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