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Vantage Frontier Campus

Shackelford County, Texas · All 21 Vantage Data Centers sites · Every Vantage Data Centers case on our tracker

Under constructionSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated October 16, 2026

Vantage Frontier Campus is a data center under construction in Texas (Shackelford County), operated by Vantage Data Centers. The public record puts it at announced 2025, 1.4 GW planned, 1,200 acres. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: Vantage Data Centers
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Shackelford County, TX
Coordinates: 32.7272, -99.2987
Power capacity: 1.4 GW planned
Land: 1,200 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: 2025
Utility: on-site natural gas microgrid (Voltagrid)
Power source: On site gas
On site generation: 700 MW
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 250 permanent
Public subsidy: Chapter 312 property tax abatement (Reinvestment Zone 2025-1; ~$10M/yr payments in lieu of taxes for 10 years), Shackelford County, Texas, 2025
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.

April 13, 2026
Under construction
Cleanview's reading of satellite imagery: vertical construction underway on five buildings, with foundations laid for two more. Source: Cleanview
December 2025
Under construction
Vantage broke ground on Frontier, "a major expansion tied to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate initiative"; the first facility is scheduled to enter service in the second half of 2026 (a target, not a delivery), with 10 buildings totalling 3.7M sq ft. Source: W.Media
September 23, 2025
Proposed
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank name Shackelford County, Texas, as a new Stargate site; the announcement does not name Vantage. Source: SoftBank Group
August 2025
Proposed
Vantage announces Frontier: $25B mega-campus on 1,200 acres at Hwy 604 / Hwy 351 intersection; ~125 miles W of Fort Worth Source: Vantage Data Centers

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Vantage Frontier Campus in Shackelford County, Texas, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 16, 2026. Shackelford County Commissioners unanimously approved the 10-year abatement; Vantage committed up to 10 annual college scholarships and $150,000 to local charities over the first decade.

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.

Shackelford County Commissioners unanimously approved the 10-year abatement; Vantage committed up to 10 annual college scholarships and $150,000 to local charities over the first decade. No documented public opposition found. Peak construction workforce cited as up to ~6,500.

Source: The Albany News

Power and water

Off-grid, behind-the-meter natural gas microgrid (~210 industrial gas generators, 700 MW) built and managed by VoltaGrid, bypassing multi-year ERCOT interconnection queues. No grid utility connection.

Vantage describes a closed-loop chilled-water system with 'near zero' water utilization efficiency; no reported MGD figure disclosed.

Public money on the record

Program	Amount	Granted by	Year
Chapter 312 property tax abatement (Reinvestment Zone 2025-1; ~$10M/yr payments in lieu of taxes for 10 years)	Not established	Shackelford County, Texas	2025

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Vantage Frontier Campus in Shackelford County, Texas?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Vantage Frontier Campus?

No lawsuit over Vantage Frontier Campus appears in the record we track as of October 16, 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 Vantage Frontier Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Vantage Frontier 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 Vantage Frontier Campus, and how big is it?

Vantage Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 21 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 1.4 GW. The site is recorded at 1200 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Vantage Frontier Campus," updated October 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/vantage-frontier-shackelford-county-tx.

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/vantage-frontier-shackelford-county-tx, 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.Vantage Data Centers Unveils Plans for Frontier, a $25B Mega-campus in Texas, Vantage · Vantage Data Centers · retrieved July 5, 2026
2.Vantage breaks ground on Texas gigawatt data center campus for OpenAI, Data Center Dynamics · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 5, 2026
3.Oracle and OpenAI Texas data center to run on 700MW natural gas microgrid · Construction Owners · retrieved July 6, 2026
4.Vantage Shackelford County, TX campus · Vantage Data Centers · retrieved July 6, 2026
5.Data center plans move forward in Shackelford County · The Albany News · retrieved July 6, 2026
6.OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · SoftBank Group · retrieved October 16, 2026
7.Vantage Data Centers breaks ground on data center campus in Texas · W.Media · retrieved October 16, 2026
8.Stargate Frontier · Cleanview · retrieved October 16, 2026

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