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Lordstown, OH · Trumbull County · 41.175°N 80.853°W

Stargate Lordstown Campus

OpenAI / SoftBank / Oracle

Under constructionAI-specificReported

Key facts

Location
Lordstown, OH, Trumbull County
Capacity
1,500 MW planned
Powered by
on-site natural gas generators
Announced
2025-09-23
Last updated

Civic impact

Energy & water

Energy source
Grid · Utility: FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)
Cooling
Closed-loop

Lordstown sits in FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison territory (eastern PJM); sources cite "affordable electricity from FirstEnergy and American Electric Power" and FirstEnergy's high-voltage transmission. FirstEnergy completed a $30M grid upgrade (2019–2022) anticipating large industrial load. DISCREPANCY: the existing poweredBy field says "on-site natural gas generators" (the adjacent independently-owned Lordstown Energy Center is a separate gas plant); on-site generation for the data center is not confirmed in site-specific filings. The 1,500 MW figure is a long-term campus ceiling — the initial data center uses "a small part" of the footprint.

SoftBank spokesperson: "The Lordstown site will also use a closed-loop cooling system that is designed to reduce water consumption." Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk (via AP): "These data centers are designed to not use water." No site-specific MGD figure published.

Public subsidies

  • Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority) — statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025–2026)
    Ohio
    Ohio committed at least $2.3B in data-center sales-tax breaks

Community sentiment

Supported

Local officials and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber described the SoftBank acquisition and Stargate/Foxconn manufacturing partnership as a 'transformational investment.' (A separate Lordstown data-center moratorium and lawsuit involved an unrelated developer, not this SoftBank/Foxconn site.)

Documents Shed Light on Potential Expansion at Foxconn's Lordstown Plant

Status history

  1. Proposed

    One of five new Stargate sites; SoftBank investing $3B to convert former GM EV plant into modular AI data center factory

    OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites — OpenAI
  2. Under construction

    Ground broken; using former Lordstown Motors / GM assembly plant; modular prefab data center approach

    Lordstown part of $500B AI data center project — WFMJ

Location

Sources & data provenance

Reported: data based on credible news outlets or industry sources.

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