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Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus)

Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

Eight-building, 1.2 GW AI data center campus in Abilene, Texas: built by Crusoe, funded by a $15bn joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure, anchored by a 15-year Oracle lease serving OpenAI (Stargate). Phase 1 (two buildings, 200+ MW) construction began June 2024; phase 2 (six buildings to 1.2 GW) began March 2025 with energization expected mid-2026.

Capacity
1,200 MW basis: facility total
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$15.0B
Announced
Jun 30, 2024
Target operational
Jun 30, 2026

Delivery health score

75 /100
75/100

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

Schedule

95 /100
95/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

75 /100
75/100

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
Capital baseline 40 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +33.94 Blue Owl Capital (investor) investor role committed $15,000,000,000 (coverage 147% of $15,000,000,000 capex).
Capital capital commitment +16.06 JPMorgan Chase (lender) lender role committed $7,100,000,000 (coverage 147% of $15,000,000,000 capex).
Capital commercial milestone +10 Oracle 15-year lease for the Abilene campus Commercial milestone "Oracle 15-year lease for the Abilene campus" achieved on 2025-05-22.
Capital staleness decay -25 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) Newest capital evidence is 2025-05-22 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Phase 1 energized — first NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle Power/interconnection milestone "Phase 1 energized — first NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle" achieved on 2025-06-30 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) 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 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-06-30 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Stargate Abilene (Crusoe campus) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Oracle 15-year lease for the Abilene campus Milestone "Oracle 15-year lease for the Abilene campus" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-05-22).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Phase 1 energized — first NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle Milestone "Phase 1 energized — first NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-06-30).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Phase 1 construction start (two buildings, 200+ MW) Milestone "Phase 1 construction start (two buildings, 200+ MW)" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-06-30).

Milestones

  1. Phase 1 construction start (two buildings, 200+ MW)

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  2. Oracle 15-year lease for the Abilene campus

    Achieved

    Commercial lease · Actual:

  3. Phase 1 energized — first NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle

    Achieved

    Energization · Actual:

  4. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

  5. Phase 2 energization — full 1.2 GW campus (eight buildings)

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Anchor Tenant
Oracle
Anchor Tenant
Crusoe
Developer
Crusoe
Investor
Blue Owl Capital
Investor
$15.0B
Primary Digital Infrastructure
Investor
JPMorgan Chase
Lender
$7.1B
Nvidia
Chip Supplier
GE Vernova
Equipment Supplier

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. Crusoe · May 22, 2025 · backs: capex usd, expected date

    https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/newsroom/crusoe-blue-owl-capital-and-primary-digital-infrastructure-enter-joint-venture

  2. Data Center Dynamics · May 22, 2025 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-secures-116bn-in-debt-and-equity-for-openais-stargate-data-center-campus-in-abilene-texas/

  3. DCD · backs: expected date

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-tops-out-final-building-at-openai-stargate-data-center-campus-in-abilene-texas/

Signals

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

  1. · thenextweb.com · relevance 0.70

  2. · GE Vernova · relevance 0.70

  3. · The Register · relevance 0.90

  4. · Crusoe · relevance 0.90

  5. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.95

  6. · Crusoe · relevance 0.70

  7. · Newmark · relevance 0.70

  8. · DCD · relevance 0.70

  9. Epoch AI · relevance 0.70

  10. Epoch AI · relevance 0.70