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Stargate I / Crusoe Abilene AI Campus (Lancium Clean Campus)
Crusoe (builder); Lancium (land/power); Oracle for OpenAI
- Status
- Partially operational
- Developer / parties
- Crusoe (builder); Lancium (land/power); Oracle for OpenAI
- Location
- Abilene, Taylor County
- Size
- ~1.2 GW, 8 buildings, ~4M sq ft
- Investment
- $30–33B total construction cost, all phases (per CNR)
- Reported benefits
- Worker counts differ: ~9,000 craft workers on site daily (Crusoe SVP via KTXS, Mar 5 2026); up to 5,000 workers at spring/summer 2026 peak (CNR, Aug 13 2026). KTXS: project "described as" Abilene's largest single investment since Dyess AFB
- Concerns / impacts
- Grid electricity combined with on-site natural gas and battery storage (CNR)
- Last verified
- 2026-10-03
Milestones
- Mid-2024 vertical construction began (CNR)
- Feb 25 2025 Taylor County amended Lancium abatement, 80% for 10 yrs (per KTAB)
- Sep 9 2025 Taylor County Resolution 22-25 approved abatement agreements with Lancium and Abilene DC 1, 3–8 LLCs (term not stated in resolution)
- Sep 30 2025 first 2 buildings live (DCD)
- Mar 2026 2 GW expansion dropped (DCD). Completion dates differ: 8 buildings through Q1 2027 (Crusoe SVP via KTXS, Mar 5 2026)
- phase 2 complete by end-2026 (Crusoe, Mar 27 2026)
- buildings complete end-2026, closeout early 2027 (CNR, Aug 13 2026)
Related records
CNR: DPR building current Abilene phase; buildings complete end-2026, closeout early 2027; up to 5,000 workers at peak.
Source: mycnr.com ↗DCD: Oracle/OpenAI drop plans to expand the Abilene Stargate site to 2 GW.
Source: datacenterdynamics.com ↗KTXS: Crusoe SVP briefs Abilene leaders; ~9,000 craft workers on site daily; 8 buildings through Q1 2027.
Source: ktxs.com ↗Commissioners Court unanimously approves Resolution 22-25: abatement agreements with Lancium and Abilene DC 1, 3–8 LLCs (draft minutes; term not stated).
Source: taylorcotx.api.civicclerk.com ↗KTAB: Taylor County commissioners amend Lancium abatement; 80% of property value abated for 10 years.
Source: finance.yahoo.com ↗Sources
- News report datacenterdynamics.com
- News report ktxs.com
- News report mycnr.com
- Company claim crusoe.ai
- Official record taylorcotx.api.civicclerk.com
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