Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)
1,200-acre campus in Shackelford County, TX (near Abilene); coordinates approximate to county centroid
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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.
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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| 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). |
Announcement · Actual:
Groundbreaking · Actual:
Commissioning · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| OpenAI | — | — | |
| Vantage Data Centers | — | — | |
| Vantage Data Centers | — | — | |
| Vantage Data Centers | — | — | |
| Silver Lake | — | — | |
| JPMorgan Chase | — | — | |
| DigitalBridge | — | — | |
| MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) | — | — | |
| VoltaGrid | — | — | |
| INNIO (Jenbacher) | — | — |
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.
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/
RCR Wireless · Aug 20, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20250820/ai-infrastructure/vantage-ai-texas
DCD · backs: actual date, status
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vantage-breaks-ground-on-texas-gigawatt-data-center-campus-for-openai/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Construction Owners · relevance 0.90
· POWER Magazine · relevance 0.80
· OpenAI · relevance 0.85
DCD · relevance 0.90
Vantage Data Centers · relevance 0.90
DCD · relevance 0.90