Stargate Shackelford County (Vantage Frontier)
AI data center in Shackelford County, Texas, operated by Oracle (for OpenAI).
Vantage Data Centers' Frontier campus in Shackelford County, Texas, one of five Stargate sites OpenAI announced in September 2025, with Oracle as the cloud operator. Ten buildings are planned.
- Live power
- —
- Planned power
- 1,400MW 1
- Status
- Under construction
- Accelerators
- —
Power: what each source says
Vantage lists 1.4 GW of IT capacity; Epoch AI's April 2026 Stargate review cites ~2 GW facility power. First building due late 2026 (Vantage). Epoch AI satellite review, 2026-09-04: buildings 1-5 shells complete and roofed, no building operational yet. TDLR lists building 1 construction completion 2027-02-15; Epoch AI projects building 1 operational ~2027-08 (estimate).
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
OpenAI
Campus facts
- Operator
- Oracle (for OpenAI) 1
- Owner / developer
- Vantage Data Centers 1
- City
- Not published
- State / region
- Texas (Shackelford County) 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2026 1
- Chips
- NVIDIA Rubin expected (Epoch AI) 1
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- Not published
- Power source
- gas (on-site) per Epoch AI review 1
- Coordinates
- 32.72° N, 99.30° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Vantage Data Centers: Shackelford County, TX (Frontier) accessed 2026-11-09
- OpenAI: Five new Stargate sites (2025-09-23) accessed 2026-11-09
- Epoch AI: OpenAI Stargate, where the US sites stand (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09