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Abilene, TX · Taylor County · 32.502°N 99.789°W

Lancium Clean Campus (Crusoe / Stargate Site 1)

Crusoe Energy (Lancium Clean Campus)

Data centerOperationalMixed-useReported

Key facts

Location
Abilene, TX, Taylor County
Capacity
200 MW
Powered by
ERCOT grid; Crusoe has separately contracted 4.5 GW of natural gas supply for its broader multi-site AI buildout
Announced
2021-12
Last updated

Civic impact

Energy & water

Energy source
Grid

Originally designed as an ERCOT-integrated demand-response/curtailable load site; on-site or dedicated gas generation for this specific campus (vs. Crusoe's broader gas supply deal) is not confirmed.

Community sentiment

Supported

City leadership has been enthusiastic about jobs and tax-base growth, framing the project locally as the city's largest single investment since Dyess Air Force Base; some nearby residents have raised construction-traffic concerns. No organized opposition campaign found.

Lancium, Crusoe Executives Brief Abilene Leaders on Major Northside Investment

Status history

  1. Proposed

    Lancium announces "Project Artemis": a Bitcoin-mining/grid-demand-response campus with Taylor County and the City of Abilene, projected at up to $2.4B over 20 years, scaling 200 MW to 1 GW.

    Taylor County and City of Abilene Announce Historic Partnership With Lancium
  2. Under construction

    Crusoe Energy begins building AI/HPC data-center buildings on the Lancium campus, pivoting the site from its original crypto-mining plan toward multi-tenant AI hosting (publicly branded "Stargate Site 1").

    Crusoe Begins Construction on Second Phase of Abilene, Texas Data Center Campus
  3. Operational

    First 2 of 8 planned buildings (~200+ MW) operational, hosting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GPU capacity for OpenAI's Stargate project.

    Crusoe Adds 4.5 GW of Natural Gas to Fuel AI, Expands Abilene Data Center to 1.2 GW

Location

Sources & data provenance

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