OpenAI Stargate Lordstown
Lordstown (Trumbull County), Trumbull County, Ohio
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely OpenAI
- Capacity
- not stated
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Trumbull County
- State
- Ohio
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
OpenAI Stargate Lordstown is on record as proposed in Trumbull County, Ohio. 6 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 2 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 1.5 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 11.6 mi Proposed 1.5 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 1.5 mi approximate
Proposed · Trumbull County, OH
- 2.3 mi approximate
Bristolville 25 Lordstown Data Center
Proposed · Trumbull County, OH
- 11.6 mi approximate
ark data centers - Youngstown, OH
Operating · Mahoning County, OH
- 15.2 mi approximate
Operating · Mahoning County, OH
- 19.6 mi approximate
Operating · Mercer County, PA
- 19.7 mi approximate
Proposed · Mercer County, PA
What is on record
Owner
Likely OpenAI
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
-
cited document names the operator
openai
Filed by: Softbank
- Capacity
- not stated
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Softbank
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for OpenAI Stargate Lordstown: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-announces-five-more-us-stargate-data-centers-with-oracle-and-softbank/ US-OH | Context | url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-announces-five-more-us-stargate-data-centers-with-oracle-and-softbank/ | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=openai-stargate-lordstown | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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