Overview

• New facilities are planned for Shackelford County and Milam County in Texas, Doña Ana County in New Mexico, Lordstown in Ohio, and one undisclosed Midwest location.
• With the additions, Stargate’s pledged investment exceeds $400 billion over the next three years and the program is on track toward the $500 billion, 10‑gigawatt goal.
• The Abilene, Texas flagship has one building online and a second nearing completion within an eight‑building campus designed for about 900 megawatts and hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200 chips.
• OpenAI says the broadened effort includes self‑built sites, third‑party cloud capacity, chip leasing and tapping debt markets, alongside an Oracle pact estimated at $300 billion and Nvidia’s initial $10 billion cash.
• Backers cite tens of thousands of jobs, while residents and experts question water use, new gas‑fired backup generation and broader power demands in drought‑prone West Texas.