# Stargate's Abilene flagship goes live as Crusoe stacks $15bn to finish it
> The 1.2GW Texas campus runs on Oracle Cloud with first GB200 racks delivered; Crusoe's $1.38bn Series E funds the expansion as SoftBank completes its $41bn into OpenAI

**Meta:** type: story · date: 2025-09-23 · heads: Whose Money, The Long Game · 9 takes · 3 lenses · 4 regions

## Summary

[Stargate](/en/entity/stargate)'s flagship in Abilene, Texas is operational: a ~1.2GW campus of ~4m sq ft
running on [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](/en/entity/oracle), with [Oracle](/en/entity/oracle) delivering the first
[Nvidia](/en/entity/nvidia) GB200 racks and early training/inference workloads under way; full completion is
expected mid-2026. Developer Crusoe raised a $1.38bn Series E (~$10bn valuation) to fund
the expansion, bringing ~$15bn total to the Texas project. [Oracle](/en/entity/oracle) and [Openai](/en/entity/openai) have
agreed to up to 4.5GW of additional Stargate capacity (>$300bn over five years), and
SoftBank has completed its $41bn investment into [Openai](/en/entity/openai). The financing is also the
fault line: Oracle's leverage and OpenAI's losses anchor the
[circular-financing](/en/n/ai-circular-financing-debt-2026) debate.

## By the numbers

- ~1.2GW / ~4m sq ft, Abilene campus capacity and footprint.
- $1.38bn, Crusoe Series E (~$10bn valuation); ~$15bn total to the Texas project.
- 4.5GW / >$300bn, additional Oracle–OpenAI Stargate capacity / five-year value.
- $41bn, SoftBank investment completed into OpenAI.

## Why it matters

Abilene is the proof-of-concept that the $500bn Stargate vision can pour concrete and run
GPUs. The same deals that finance it, Oracle's debt-funded cloud build against OpenAI's
loss-making commitments, are exactly what credit markets watch for the first crack.

## What to watch

- Mid-2026 full-campus completion and GB200 ramp at Abilene.
- Oracle credit metrics (debt-to-equity, CDS spreads) as commitments grow.
- Whether the 4.5GW additional capacity gets sited and powered.

## Regional takes (batched by bias / lens)

### unlabelled
- **OpenAI** (United States, en) — OpenAI's statement on the Oracle partnership advancing Stargate (4.5GW of additional capacity), the financing frame behind the Abilene flagship and beyond, the record from the lead partner.
  Source: https://openai.com/index/stargate-advances-with-partnership-with-oracle/
- **Data Center Dynamics** (United Kingdom, en) — 
  Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-announces-five-more-us-stargate-data-centers-with-oracle-and-softbank/
- **SoftBank Group** (Japan, en) — 
  Source: https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250924
- **IntuitionLabs (Stargate guide)** (United States, en) — 
  Source: https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/openai-stargate-datacenter-details
- **Epoch AI** (United States, en) — 
  Source: https://epoch.ai/publications/openai-stargate-where-the-us-sites-stand
- **Reuters** (Global, en) — 
  Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/
- **Bloomberg** (United States, en) — 
  Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/technology

### US business
- **CNBC** (United States, en) — Reports the first large Stargate facility in Abilene going operational on Oracle Cloud, situating it inside the $500bn project and the Crusoe-built campus, the on-the-ground status.
  > "OpenAI's first data center in the $500 billion Stargate project is open in Texas."
  Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/openai-first-data-center-in-500-billion-stargate-project-up-in-texas.html

### infrastructure analysis
- **IntuitionLabs** (United States, en) — Analyses the >$300bn Oracle–OpenAI cloud commitment and the debt it implies, the clearest account of how Abilene's build is financed and why Oracle's leverage worries credit markets.
  > "Oracle and OpenAI's ~$300B deal: an AI-infrastructure commitment that loads Oracle's balance sheet."
  Source: https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/oracle-openai-300b-deal-analysis

## Across the graph
- Related: [[stargate-michigan-7bn-barn]], [[uae-g42-stargate-nvidia]], [[ai-circular-financing-debt-2026]], [[nvidia-q1-fy27-record-data-center]]
- Entities: Stargate, Openai, Oracle, Nvidia, Data Centers, United States

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