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Stargate Milam County Campus

Milam County, Texas · All 6 OpenAI sites · Every OpenAI and Oracle case on our tracker

Under constructionSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated July 6, 2026

Stargate Milam County Campus is a data center under construction in Texas (Milam County), operated by OpenAI / SoftBank (SB Energy). The public record puts it at announced September 23, 2025, 1.2 GW planned, 595 acres, a reported $470 million investment. 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 (SB Energy)
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Milam County, TX
Coordinates
30.8520, -96.9720
Power capacity
1.2 GW planned
Land
595 acres
Investment
$470 million
Announced
September 23, 2025
Utility
ERCOT
Power source
Solar
Cooling
Closed loop
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
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 announced; SB Energy providing powered infrastructure on 595-acre site ~70 miles NE of Austin Source: OpenAI
  2. 2025
    Under construction
    Steel framing and roofing visible in satellite imagery; first building delivery targeted October 2025 Source: Epoch AI

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Stargate Milam County Campus in Milam County, Texas, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of July 6, 2026. The site is the former Alcoa Sandow aluminum smelter (which shed ~2,000 jobs when it closed around 2008), and county officials welcome the tax base while acknowledging the campus will provide few long-term jobs.

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.

The site is the former Alcoa Sandow aluminum smelter (which shed ~2,000 jobs when it closed around 2008), and county officials welcome the tax base while acknowledging the campus will provide few long-term jobs. Milam County approved a reinvestment zone but said it would not consider a tax-abatement package until a tenant is signed. First-phase construction cost is put at ~$470M in a state permit filing; a larger multi-billion full-campus figure has been reported.

Source: The Real Deal

Power and water

SB Energy (SoftBank) is to fund and build new on-site solar generation and storage to supply the majority of the campus's power, adjacent to its operational Orion Solar Belt (900+ MW) in Milam County; no on-site gas is confirmed for this site. SoftBank and OpenAI are each investing $500M in SB Energy. Planned campus capacity is 1.2 GW.

SB Energy states the facility uses a closed-loop water-cooling system 'designed to minimize water usage'; no permitted volume (MGD) is disclosed.

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.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Stargate Milam County Campus in Milam County, Texas?

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Stargate Milam County Campus in Milam County, Texas, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of July 6, 2026. The site is the former Alcoa Sandow aluminum smelter (which shed ~2,000 jobs when it closed around 2008), and county officials welcome the tax base while acknowledging the campus will provide few long-term jobs.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stargate Milam County Campus?

No lawsuit over Stargate Milam County Campus appears in the record we track as of July 6, 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 Milam County Campus use?

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

OpenAI / SoftBank (SB Energy) 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 595 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stargate Milam County Campus," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stargate-milam-county-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-milam-county-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. 1.OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand, Epoch AI · Epoch AI · retrieved July 5, 2026
  2. 2.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites, OpenAI · OpenAI · retrieved July 5, 2026
  3. 3.SB Energy to build and operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas, Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
  4. 4.OpenAI Stargate's Milam 'Freebird' data center to span 548,950 sq ft in first phase ($470M), Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
  5. 5.SoftBank's SB Energy plans $3 billion Texas data center, The Real Deal · The Real Deal · retrieved July 6, 2026

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