- Stargate’s 2GW Texas data center expansion could be scrapped, capping it at 1.2GW
- The Abilene campus has already faced a number of challenges
- OpenAI may want to focus on adapting newer chips
Oracle and OpenAI reportedly (via Bloomberg) has scrapped plans to expand the Abilene, Texas-based Stargate AI data center campus, part of the $500 billion Stargate project designed to expand AI infrastructure in the United States.
Currently, Abilene is a two-building campus, but six more buildings are expected to come online this year, bringing the total capacity to approximately 1.2 GW.
However, plans to expand further to around 2GW have now been shelved as OpenAI and Oracle have made the decision not to further expand their Texas campus, but wider expansions are not ruled out, with the companies instead targeting other US locations.
OpenAI’s Stargate project faces a roadblock to expansion
Bloomberg says companies would have faced financing and infrastructure challenges, with delays in the power sector hampering current expansion plans. OpenAI also refined its demand forecasts and revised its Stargate strategy.
A multi-day outage caused by extreme winter weather affecting the site’s liquid cooling equipment also damaged relations between OpenAI and Crusoe, the site’s infrastructure partner, which may have contributed to OpenAI’s decision to focus on other campuses rather than continually expanding this flagship site.
Additionally, while the Abilene campus is expected to use Nvidia Blackwell chips, OpenAI could look to diversify and/or upgrade and build new campuses with other chips, including Nvidia’s Vera Rubin.
In late 2025, OpenAI announced additional Stargate campuses in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Wisconsin, Lordstown, Ohio; and Milam County, Texas.
PK Press Club adds that Meta may be in discussions with OpenAI to lease canceled expansion capacity in Abilene, but nothing has been confirmed on that.
TechRadar Pro asked OpenAI to confirm changes to its Stargate plans, but we did not receive an immediate response.
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