Stargate Lordstown (SoftBank and OpenAI tenant; Lordstown, Ohio, US) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 214 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: not yet due.
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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.
- Evidence read
- Today
- Promised
The announcement
- Announced or estimated capacity (IT load)
- 214 MW
- Where the announcement was read
- epoch.ai
- When it was read
The promise
- Promised by
- What was promised
- operations
- Where the promise was read
- openai.com
At the close of the record
- Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026
- 0 MW
- Where the evidence was read
- not on file
- When it was read
- The book’s verdict
- Not yet due
The book’s note
OpenAI said in September 2025 the site would become operational in 2026; Epoch projects first operation about 1 Mar 2027 (August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates, anchor addendum). 214 MW is Epoch’s estimate. The August 2026 compilation records 0 publicly verified and names no source for the zero.
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Questions about this campus
- Is Stargate Lordstown energized?
- Stargate Lordstown (SoftBank and OpenAI tenant; Lordstown, Ohio, US) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 214 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: not yet due.
- When was Stargate Lordstown promised to be energized?
- Stargate Lordstown was promised operations by 31 December 2026.
- Who is building Stargate Lordstown?
- SoftBank (developer), OpenAI (tenant).
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Stargate Lordstown.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-lordstown (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-stargate-lordstown-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Stargate Lordstown}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-lordstown},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}