Stargate Abilene
A hyperscale AI campus by Crusoe / Oracle / OpenAI in Abilene, TX, on the ERCOT grid. Status: operating, expanding.
Grid and gas impact
At full buildout this campus is announced at 1,200 MW. After phasing to 2030 and weighting by build stage, the index expects about 648 MW running by 2030. That is about 0.7% of the ERCOT record peak of July 22, 2026 (91,089 MW).
At that level it would use about 4,257 GWh of electricity a year, roughly what 394,000 US homes use (EIA average of about 10,800 kWh per home), and add about 61.0 MMcf/d of natural gas burn on an average day, counting both on-site generation and the region's gas-fired power plants.
Its rating is driven by grid load: power is expected to come mostly from the utility grid, so the effect shows up in transmission, capacity and generation needs, and in the gas burned by the region's power plants. Rated 3 of 4 bolts. Solid bolts mean the campus is operating or under construction.
Research note. First buildings online Sept 2025. 360 MW of on-site gas turbines; a major air permit was sought to add more. Reports conflict on the expansion (itk: 600 MW expansion cancelled; execgraph: 900 MW on-site plant planned).
Fact sheet
- Index ID
- DC-073
- Campus
- Stargate Abilene
- Developer / tenant
- Crusoe / Oracle / OpenAI
- Segment
- Hyperscale AI
- Location
- Abilene, TX
- State / province
- Texas
- Country
- United States
- Metro
- Abilene
- Grid region
- ERCOT
- Electric utility
- TBD + on-site gas
- Status
- Operating, expanding (counts 90% toward 2030)
- Online / target
- 2025–
- Announced capacity
- 1,200 MW (Campus potential)
- Expected load by 2030
- 648 MW (index estimate)
- Annual energy at expected load
- about 4,257 GWh
- Power supply
- Grid + on-site gas
- Added gas burn, average day
- 61.0 MMcf/d (index estimate)
- Impact rating
- (3 of 4; scale)
- Confidence
- B (Several consistent sources)
- Last reviewed
- November 3, 2026
Sources
- The gigawatt era: inside the 5 largest data center projects in America in 2026Smarter Labor · 2026Secondary
- Texas data centers, AI power plants and state pollution permitsTexas Tribune · Jul 9, 2026
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How to cite
Data Center Index (datacenterindex.info), Discovery Energy. "Stargate Abilene" (DC-073), https://datacenterindex.info/campuses/dc-073-stargate-abilene/, updated November 3, 2026.