Stargate Abilene
Abilene (Taylor County), Taylor County, Texas
Approximate area
A permit or approval is on record. Construction may not have started.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Permitted (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Crusoe
- Capacity
- 1,200 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Taylor County
- State
- Texas
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
Location and nearby
Stargate Abilene is on record as permitted in Taylor County, Texas. A record puts its capacity at 1,200 MW. 9 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 5 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 1.1 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 1.1 mi Under construction 11.9 mi Permitted 4.9 mi Proposed 4.4 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 1.1 mi approximate
Stargate Abilene (Lancium Clean Campus)
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 4.4 mi approximate
Crusoe Abilene - Building 9 (Microsoft)
Proposed · Taylor County, TX
- 4.7 mi approximate
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 4.9 mi approximate
Permitted · Taylor County, TX
- 4.9 mi approximate
Operating · Taylor County, TX
- 5.4 mi approximate
Proposed · 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
-
cited document names the operator
crusoe
Source cited by AI GridWatch for Stargate Abilene: https://epoch.ai/publications/openai-stargate-where-the-us-sites-stand · Aug 7, 2026
Filed by: Crusoe
Sources name more than one company here: Crusoe, OpenAI, Oracle. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- Capacity
- 1,200 MW from agw
- 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
- Crusoe · OpenAI / Oracle / SoftBank (Stargate)
How the status changed
- Permitted Aug 7, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: approved|approved; 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 Stargate Abilene: https://epoch.ai/publications/openai-stargate-where-the-us-sites-stand US-TX | Context | url=https://epoch.ai/publications/openai-stargate-where-the-us-sites-stand | Aug 7, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=stargate-abilene-tx | Aug 7, 2026 last changed on the server |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.
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