Stargate Shackelford / Frontier (Vantage Data Centers, Oracle and OpenAI tenant; Shackelford County, Texas, 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 1,400 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)
- 1,400 MW
- Where the announcement was read
- vantage-dc.com
- When it was read
The promise
- Promised by
- What was promised
- operations
- Where the promise was read
- vantage-dc.com
At the close of the record
- Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026
- 0 MW
- Where the evidence was read
- epoch.ai
- When it was read
- The book’s verdict
- Not yet due
The book’s note
First building promised for H2 2026 (August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates row 33; the August 2026 compilation). Epoch estimates the first building at about 15 Aug 2027. 1,400 MW is Vantage’s critical-IT figure.
Also
- Who is involved
- developer Vantage Data Centers
- operator Oracle
- tenant OpenAI
The dated tests that name it
- Chapter 7, the frontier’s deployment due 31 December 2027
- Chapters 1 and 12, the first route due 31 August 2028
- Chapters 1 and 12, the second route due 31 August 2028
- Chapters 1 and 12, the wager due 31 August 2028
- Chapter 2, compute moved rather than stopped due 31 March 2029
Campuses near it in the ledger
- Stargate Abilene Texas, US · shares 2 parties
- Stargate Milam County Texas, US · shares a party
- Helios Texas, US
- Project Matador / HyperGrid Texas, US
- Stargate Port Washington / Lighthouse shares 3 parties
- Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter shares 2 parties
Questions about this campus
- Is Stargate Shackelford / Frontier energized?
- Stargate Shackelford / Frontier (Vantage Data Centers, Oracle and OpenAI tenant; Shackelford County, Texas, 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 1,400 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: not yet due.
- When was Stargate Shackelford / Frontier promised to be energized?
- Stargate Shackelford / Frontier was promised operations by 31 December 2026.
- Who is building Stargate Shackelford / Frontier?
- Vantage Data Centers (developer), Oracle (operator), OpenAI (tenant).
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Stargate Shackelford / Frontier.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-stargate-shackelford-frontier-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Stargate Shackelford / Frontier}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}