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title: "Stargate Abilene (Crusoe; Oracle; OpenAI), Abilene, Texas, US — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-abilene
description: "Stargate Abilene: slipped. 421 MW evidenced of 843 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; first power promised by 30 June 2025."
---

# Stargate Abilene (Crusoe; Oracle; OpenAI), Abilene, Texas, US

Crusoe (with an asset SPV); Oracle; OpenAI

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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Announced or estimated (IT load) 843 MW

Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 421 MW

The book’s verdict Slipped

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.

The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Slipped**.

- Promised 30 June 2025
- Evidence read 27 September 2026
- Today Nov 2026

**421 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 843 MW announced or estimated (50%).

## The announcement

**Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 843 MW

**Where the announcement was read:** [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/openai-stargate-abilene)

**When it was read:** 28 August 2026

## The promise

**Promised by:** 30 June 2025

**What was promised:** first power

**Where the promise was read:** [crusoe.ai](https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-expands-ai-data-center-campus-in-abilene-to-1-2-gigawatts)

## At the close of the record

**Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 421 MW

**Where the evidence was read:** [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/openai-stargate-abilene)

**When it was read:** 27 September 2026

**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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/crusoe)
- owner [Crusoe asset SPV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/crusoe-asset-spv)
- operator [Oracle](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/oracle)
- tenant [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai)

## Filings that bear on it

- [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Longhorn Data Center air-permit technical record, application received 11 January 2025](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/tceq-longhorn) 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/blue-owl-10q-q3-2025) 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/yahoo-pledge) 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier) Texas, US · shares 2 parties
- [Stargate Milam County](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-milam-county) Texas, US · shares a party
- [Helios](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/helios) Texas, US
- [Project Matador / HyperGrid](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/project-matador-hypergrid) Texas, US
- [Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-dona-ana-project-jupiter) shares 2 parties
- [Stargate UAE](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/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).

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