Overview

• At the Abilene flagship, one building is operating and a second is nearly complete, with the eight-building campus slated to draw about 900 megawatts and host hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200 chips.
• The consortium announced additional sites in Shackelford County and Milam County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; plus an undisclosed Midwest location.
• OpenAI says commitments now exceed $400 billion for nearly 7 gigawatts over the next three years, keeping the group on pace for its $500 billion, 10‑gigawatt goal.
• Partners detailed major financing and supply ties, including a reported $100 billion OpenAI–Nvidia arrangement and a previously reported $300 billion compute capacity deal with Oracle, with SoftBank taking a lead financing role.
• Executives acknowledged heavy power needs and said the campus uses a gas-fired backup plant and closed-loop cooling to limit direct water use, as experts flagged broader grid and environmental impacts for review.