In January 2024, OpenAI announced 'The Stargate Project,' a new venture planning to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years. The project's equity investors include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, with SoftBank managing financial responsibilities and OpenAI overseeing operations.
In 2023, Lancium and former Bitcoin miner Crusoe began constructing a data center that is nearing completion and will be occupied by Oracle. It was later revealed that OpenAI would utilize the GPU capacity in Abilene for ChatGPT workloads.
The Stargate Project has begun construction of data centers in Texas, with plans to expand to up to 20 facilities across different locations.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 1 |
The first phase will see a 998,000 square foot facility designed to handle huge AI workloads, supporting up to 100,000 GPUs per building.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 2 |
This facility is part of Crusoe Energy's Lancium Clean Compute Campus in West Texas.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 4 |
This building will be part of the second phase of Crusoe's data center complex currently under construction at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 5 |
This building will be part of the second phase of Crusoe's data center complex currently under construction at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 3 |
Construction is underway for the second phase of Crusoe's data center complex at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 6 |
This building will be part of the second phase of Crusoe's data center complex currently under construction at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Lancium: Abilene |
The project, named Clean Compute Campus, will cover an area of 8000 acres and represents one of the largest private capital investments in Abilene and Taylor County history at US$2.4 billion.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Crusoe: Abilene 7 |
This building will be part of the second phase of Crusoe's data center complex currently under construction at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas.
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