--- title: "Abilene: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH" source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene description: "Abilene: Crusoe's campus in Texas, built for Oracle and, through it, OpenAI, on a greenfield site." --- # Abilene What does “Abilene” mean? AbileneCrusoe’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.* From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy) Defined in [Chapter 4 — One Rack](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-4). ## Where the book uses it - [Chapter 4 — One Rack](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-4)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/company#crusoe-abilene-live-sep25) - 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/company#crusoe-900mw) - 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/company#crusoe-abilene-1-2gw-mar25) - 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/company#crusoe-5gw) - 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/company#jpm-powering-progress-sep26) And 14 more: [search the Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources). ## Related terms - [Slippage matrix](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/slippage-matrix) - [Greenfield](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield) - [H100](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h100) - [122 days](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/122-days) - [Accelerator](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/accelerator) - [Announced against energized](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/announced-against-energized) - [Blackwell](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/blackwell) - [Campus ledger](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/campus-ledger) - [Colossus](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/colossus) - [Consent as a race](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race) - [Conversion, prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention) - [CPU](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cpu) From the glossary of The AI Compute Race. - [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger) - [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests) - [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard) - [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases) - [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion) - [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory) - [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine) - [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion) - [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary) - [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people) - [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources) - [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes) - [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections) - [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1) - [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent) - [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties) *The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026. [About the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1)[Tell me when it is out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#notify)