Stargate Abilene (Crusoe, Oracle and OpenAI; Abilene, Texas, US) was promised first power by 30 June 2025; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 421 MW of IT load against 843 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: slipped.
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The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.
- Promised
- Evidence read
- Today
The announcement
- Announced or estimated capacity (IT load)
- 843 MW
- Where the announcement was read
- epoch.ai
- When it was read
The promise
- Promised by
- What was promised
- first power
- Where the promise was read
- crusoe.ai
At the close of the record
- Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026
- 421 MW
- Where the evidence was read
- epoch.ai
- When it was read
- The book’s verdict
- Slipped
The book’s note
The two-building, 200+ MW first phase ‘expected to be energized in the first half of 2025’ (Crusoe, 18 Mar 2025; the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates dates the same promise to Crusoe and Lancium, 21 Apr 2024). Epoch dates 211 MW to 24 Dec 2025, about six months late; Crusoe has the phase live 30 Sep 2025. Chapter 12’s anchor, outside the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates’s forty but row 17 of this ledger. 843 MW is Epoch’s estimate.
Also
- Who is involved
- developer Crusoe
- owner Crusoe asset SPV
- operator Oracle
- tenant OpenAI
Filings that bear on it
- Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Longhorn Data Center air-permit technical record, application received 11 January 2025 Texas’s environmental agency reviewed in January 2025 a request by Crusoe to cut the Longhorn Data Center’s permitted turbines in Abilene from twelve to ten, five Titan 350s of 38 megawatts and five GE LM2500s of 34.1.
- Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 September 2025 A Blue Owl net lease trust’s report for July to September 2025 records its indirect stake in the venture funding a campus leased to Meta, $27.3 billion of notes issued by Beignet Investor, and ventures with Crusoe for Oracle.
- The White House, “President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge Secures American AI Dominance, Protects Consumers,” 23 July 2026 The White House said on 23 July 2026 that more than 200 more utilities, developers, cooperatives and states had joined its Ratepayer Protection Pledge, citing power deals by Google, Oracle, Amazon, QTS and Meta, and Crusoe’s self-powered Abilene campus.
Campuses near it in the ledger
- Stargate Shackelford / Frontier Texas, US · shares 2 parties
- Stargate Milam County Texas, US · shares a party
- Helios Texas, US
- Project Matador / HyperGrid Texas, US
- Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter shares 2 parties
- Stargate UAE shares 2 parties
Questions about this campus
- Is Stargate Abilene energized?
- Stargate Abilene (Crusoe, Oracle and OpenAI; Abilene, Texas, US) was promised first power by 30 June 2025; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 421 MW of IT load against 843 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: slipped.
- When was Stargate Abilene promised to be energized?
- Stargate Abilene was promised first power by 30 June 2025.
- Who is building Stargate Abilene?
- Crusoe (developer), Crusoe asset SPV (owner), Oracle (operator), OpenAI (tenant).
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Stargate Abilene.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-abilene (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-stargate-abilene-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Stargate Abilene}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-abilene},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}