OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership Amid Data Center Strategy Reset
March 18, 2026
OpenAI
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.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.01 miles | Crusoe: Abilene Campus |
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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| 0.16 miles | Crusoe: Abilene 2 |
This facility is part of Crusoe Energy's Lancium Clean Compute Campus in West Texas.
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| 0.41 miles | 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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| 0.42 miles | 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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| 0.48 miles | 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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| 0.51 miles | 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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| 0.53 miles | 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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| 0.80 miles | 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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| 0.84 miles | Crusoe: Abilene 10 |
Crusoe is planning a major expansion, Phase 3, at its Stargate campus in Abilene. The proposal includes two new data center buildings, each approximately 738,000 square feet.
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| 0.96 miles | Crusoe: Abilene 8 |
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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| 0.96 miles | Crusoe: Abilene 9 |
Crusoe is planning a major expansion, Phase 3, at its Stargate campus in Abilene. The proposal includes two new data center buildings, each approximately 738,000 square feet.
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| 5.35 miles | Duos: Abilene Edge DC |
The Duos Edge data center is located at the Region 14 Education Service Center (ESC) campus at in Abilene, Texas.
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| 13.03 miles | Vantage: Shackelford County |
Vantage Data Centers is making its largest investment ever, with plans to spend over $25 billion to build a massive data center campus called "Frontier" in Shackelford County, Texas.
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| 13.15 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Oracle and OpenAI are planning a massive new data center in Shackelford County, Texas, dubbed "Stargate," that will be powered by its own on-site natural gas plant.
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| 13.41 miles | Vantage: Shackelford Expansion | |
| 13.71 miles | OpenAI: Shackelford Expansion |
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