Crusoe Abilene Expansion
Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
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 Crusoe
- Capacity
- not stated
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Taylor County
- State
- Texas
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
Location and nearby
Crusoe Abilene Expansion is on record as proposed in Taylor County, Texas. 9 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 1 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 4.8 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 4.8 mi Under construction 16.9 mi Permitted 5.4 mi Proposed 7.8 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 4.8 mi approximate
Stargate Abilene (Lancium Clean Campus)
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 5.4 mi approximate
Permitted · Taylor County, TX
- 7.8 mi approximate
Crusoe Abilene - Building 9 (Microsoft)
Proposed · Taylor County, TX
- 8.3 mi approximate
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 8.6 mi approximate
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 9.0 mi approximate
Permitted · Taylor County, TX
What is on record
Owner
Likely Crusoe
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
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cited document names the operator
crusoe
Filed by: Microsoft
Sources name more than one company here: Crusoe, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- 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
- Microsoft · OpenAI Stargate Shackelford · Oracle
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
- 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, tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
4 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 Crusoe Abilene Expansion: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/oracle-and-openai-end-plans-to-expand-flagship-data-center US-TX | Context | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/oracle-and-openai-end-plans-to-expand-flagship-data-center | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=crusoe-abilene-expansion | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for OpenAI Stargate Shackelford: https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/shackelford-county-tx US-TX | Context | url=https://vantage-dc.com/data-center-locations/north-america/shackelford-county-tx | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=openai-stargate-shackelford | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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