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Abilene AI campus

by CrusoeUS

DeployStage 4 of 5

First buildings running since 2025. The rest come online through 2026.

Updated 23 Sep 2025Checked 25 Sep0 updates this week

Milestones

Next · Full campus complete
  1. Phase 1 construction starts2024Complete.
  2. Expansion to about 1.2 GW announcedMar 2025Complete.
  3. First buildings operational2025Complete.
  4. Full campus completeTarget 2026Current milestone.

Most important updates

  • 23 Sep 2025
  • 18 Mar 2025
  • 21 Jan 2025

Upcoming

  1. 2026Full campus complete (next)

Current obstacles

  • Grid and on-site powerA gigawatt load in West Texas relies on the grid plus on-site gas generators and batteries.

Physics limits

  • Every watt becomes heatA 1.2 GW campus must shed as much heat as a large power plant. Dry cooling uses little water but works worst on the hottest days, when the chips need it most.
  • Moving a gigawatt needs heavy wiresDelivering a gigawatt takes high-voltage lines and substations sized for a city. Power must be generated and carried continuously, and new transmission takes years to build.

How it works

3 parts
A GE LM6000 gas turbine under maintenance in Iraq, not at Abilene: on-site power there comes from jet-engine-derived turbines of this kind
A GE LM6000 gas turbine under maintenance in Iraq, not at Abilene: on-site power there comes from jet-engine-derived turbines of this kindPhoto: Pro-Per Energy Services · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens commons.wikimedia.org)
Buildings

8 buildings, about 1.2 GW

Each building is designed for up to about 50,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, cooled by closed-loop liquid systems that recirculate the same water.

Power

Grid plus on-site generation

Power comes from the Texas grid, rich in West Texas wind, with on-site gas generation as backup and for extra capacity.

Tenancy

Built for Oracle and OpenAI

Crusoe develops the campus; Oracle leases it and runs OpenAI's Stargate workloads on it.

Update log

3 updates

Tue 23 Sep 2025

  • Minor: PressCommercial

Tue 18 Mar 2025

  • Major: BlogManufacturing

Tue 21 Jan 2025

  • Major: PressCommercial

About Crusoe

The team behind Abilene AI campus

Crusoe

AI data centers, Crusoe Cloud, Abilene

Crusoe builds and runs AI data centers and a GPU cloud, placing them near cheap power. It started by using waste gas from oil fields. It built the Abilene, Texas campus for OpenAI and Oracle's first Stargate site.

  • Raised over $3B at about a $30B valuation in September 2026.
  • Built the 1.2 GW Abilene campus with Lancium for Oracle and OpenAI.
  • Sold its bitcoin-mining business to NYDIG in 2025 to focus on AI.

crusoe.ai (opens crusoe.ai)Company profile →

Founded
20188 yrs
Headquarters
United States
Status
Private
Valuation
$30BprivateSep 2026
Raised
$5B3 rounds
Last round
Venture round · $3BSep 2026$30B post
Works in
ComputingData centers & cloudEnergy
Coverage
1 program · 5 updateslatest 23d agochecked 25 Sep
Lead investors
Mubadala CapitalValor Equity PartnersFounders Fund
Customers
OracleOpenAI
Partners
Lancium
People
Chase LochmillerCo-founder and CEOCully CavnessCo-founder and President
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