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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 July 5, 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, 1.5 GW planned. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

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
1.5 GW planned
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.

  1. 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
  2. 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 July 5, 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. DISCREPANCY: the existing poweredBy field says "on-site natural gas generators" (the adjacent independently-owned Lordstown Energy Center is a separate gas plant); on-site generation for the data center is not confirmed in site-specific filings. The 1,500 MW figure is a long-term campus ceiling, the initial data center uses "a small part" of the footprint.

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

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
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 establishedOhio

Notes on the record

Planned 1,500 MW is a long-term campus ceiling, not a near-term operational 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.

  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Land area
Which document closes each gap
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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Stargate Lordstown Campus in Lordstown?

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 July 5, 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.)

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. Capacity on record is 1.5 GW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate Lordstown Campus," updated July 5, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-lordstown-oh.

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-lordstown-oh, 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. 1.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites, OpenAI · OpenAI · retrieved July 5, 2026
  2. 2.Lordstown part of $500B AI data center project, WFMJ · WFMJ · retrieved July 5, 2026
  3. 3.Documents Shed Light on Potential Expansion at Foxconn's Lordstown Plant · Business Journal Daily · retrieved July 6, 2026
  4. 4.Positive economic news bolsters Valley in 2025 · Tribune Chronicle · retrieved July 6, 2026
  5. 5.Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers · Data Center Frontier · retrieved July 6, 2026
  6. 6.Data center to occupy 'small part' of Lordstown AI hub; 'advanced' design · WFMJ · retrieved July 6, 2026
  7. 7.Ohio committed at least $2.3B in data-center sales-tax breaks · Signal Ohio · retrieved July 6, 2026

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