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Vantage Starts Construction on $25 Billion, 1.4-GW 'Frontier' AI Data Center Campus in Texas

The 1,200-acre site targets ultra-high-density computing for next-generation AI using designs that curb strain on local resources.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Overview

  • Work is underway in Shackelford County on a 10-facility campus totaling roughly 3.7 million square feet.
  • Frontier is engineered for ultra-high-density racks exceeding 250 kilowatts per cabinet to handle advanced GPU workloads.
  • The first building is scheduled to come online in the second half of 2026.
  • The investment exceeds $25 billion and is backed by Silver Lake plus DigitalBridge, following a 2024 $9.2 billion equity raise.
  • Vantage projects more than 5,000 jobs and plans a closed-loop chiller system that it says could save billions of gallons of water each year.