Crusoe’s campus in Texas, built for Oracle and, through it, OpenAI, on a greenfield site. Chapter 12 uses its first phase as the anchor of the slippage matrix, the forty campuses it scores, thirty-one of them with dated promises. Chapter 4.
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Defined in Chapter 4 — One Rack.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 4 — One Rack
How a datacenter is actually built, from a converted factory in Memphis to a greenfield campus in Texas, and what the clock from first ground to first power really measures.
- Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination
The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.
Where the record uses it
- Campus Stargate Abilene
Sources that use it
- Crusoe, “Crusoe announces flagship Abilene data center is live,” 30 September 2025 (“Construction of the multi-building campus began in June 2024. Within a year, the first two buildings were energized”; the first phase “now up and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure”; Oracle delivering the first GB200 racks from June 2025). In the Sources
- Crusoe, “Crusoe Announces New 900 MW AI Factory Campus in Abilene, Texas to Support Microsoft AI Infrastructure,” 27 March 2026 (two new buildings with an on-site 900 MW power plant, adjacent to the existing campus, “bringing the total projected capacity across the full Abilene site to 2.1 gigawatts”; the first two 100 MW buildings “constructed and energized in under one year”; the 1.2 GW development’s second phase “expected to reach completion by the end of 2026”; “Each of the two new buildings is designed to deliver 336 MW of critical IT load”; re-read on the live page on 20 September 2026). In the Sources
- Crusoe, “Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts,” 18 March 2025 (the initial phase, “two buildings at 980,000 square feet and 200+ megawatts, is expected to be energized in the first half of 2025”; construction from June 2024; the second phase of six more buildings “expected to be completed in mid-2026”, 1.2 GW in all). In the Sources
- Crusoe, “Crusoe’s Contracted AI Infrastructure Capacity Approaches 5 Gigawatts,” 9 June 2026 (the Abilene campus “purpose built for Oracle”; the first two buildings operational, six under construction; Crusoe “manufactures long-lead electrical components at its own facilities in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, and ships prefabbed equipment ready for installation”). In the Sources
- J.P. Morgan, “Powering progress: Financing the infrastructure behind US data center growth,” Technology Exchange, on J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s site, published 11 September 2026, no byline (the bank’s own account of its lending: J.P. Morgan “originated $9.6 billion across two construction loans for the initiative’s Abilene, Texas campus, acting as lead left, sole underwriter and sole structuring agent on both transactions,” the initiative being Project Stargate; the page gives no terms, dates or holders of the loans) In the Sources
And 14 more: search the Sources.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Abilene.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-abilene-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Abilene}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}