The data centers in Abilene will be smaller than that. Crusoe said in July that the first phase of the project will be for a 200-megawatt data center, with plans to expand to 1.2 gigawatts of power.

The Stargate project was announced in January at the White House. It calls for investments of up to $500 billion over the next five years to build data centers to power AI systems.

The $500B Stargate data center development joint venture led by OpenAI and SoftBank is considering building data centers outside of the United States, with the UK emerging as the most likely ...

Data centers consumed about 4.4% of all U.S. electricity in 2023 and that’s expected to increase to 6.7% to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Opinion In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health The first data center for a $500-billion artificial intelligence project arrives in small-town Texas, alongside a ...

Tech news outlet The Information first reported on an OpenAI data center project called Stargate in March 2024, indicating that it's been in the works long before Trump announced it.

Crusoe has raised a $750 million credit line from Brookfield Asset Management. The company is a key player in the $500 billion Stargate project, which includes a large data center campus in Texas.