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Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate)

Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

1,200-acre campus in Shackelford County, TX (near Abilene); coordinates approximate to county centroid

Capacity
1,400 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$25.0B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

69.5 /100
69.5/100

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

Schedule

90 /100
90/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

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
Capital baseline 40 Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Vantage Data Centers Frontier (Shackelford County / Stargate) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-08-20).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-08-31).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  3. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Anchor Tenant
Vantage Data Centers
Developer
Vantage Data Centers
Investor
Vantage Data Centers
Owner
Silver Lake
Investor
JPMorgan Chase
Lender
DigitalBridge
Investor
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group)
Lender
VoltaGrid
Power Supplier
INNIO (Jenbacher)
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. Vantage Data Centers · backs: capacity mw, capex usd, expected date

    https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-unveils-plans-for-frontier-a-25b-mega-campus-in-texas-to-meet-unprecedented-ai-demand/

  2. RCR Wireless · Aug 20, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.rcrwireless.com/20250820/ai-infrastructure/vantage-ai-texas

  3. DCD · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-texas-gigawatt-data-center-campus-for-openai/

Signals

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

  1. · Construction Owners · relevance 0.90

  2. · POWER Magazine · relevance 0.80

  3. · OpenAI · relevance 0.85

  4. DCD · relevance 0.90

  5. Vantage Data Centers · relevance 0.90

  6. DCD · relevance 0.90