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Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate)

Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

Lancium Clean Campus, Abilene — the Stargate flagship. Phase 1 (2 buildings, 200+MW) energized H1 2025 and operating with Oracle Cloud infrastructure; Phase 2 building to 1.2GW (mid-2026); Phase 3 = adjacent 900MW Microsoft-dedicated campus (2x336MW critical IT, first building mid-2027). Full-site projection 2.1GW.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

54 /100
54/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-09-23 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Energization Power/interconnection milestone "Energization" achieved on 2025-06-30 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-06-30 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Energization Milestone "Energization" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-06-30).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Crusoe / Lancium Abilene AI Campus (Stargate) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-06-30 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Energization

    Achieved

    Energization · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Oracle
Anchor Tenant
Crusoe
Developer
Mortenson
Epc Contractor

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. CNBC · Sep 23, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/openai-first-data-center-in-500-billion-stargate-project-up-in-texas.html

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Crusoe

  2. · CNBC

  3. Mortenson