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OpenAI Stargate Lordstown

StatusUnder constructionWhereLordstown, Ohio, USIndexed fromEpoch AI Frontier Data Centers

Under construction; SoftBank Group Corp. is recorded as owning the AI hardware inside this site

Description quoted from Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers

The Stargate data center campus in Lordstown, Ohio is one of a set of 5 Stargate sites that were announced in tandem. Current permitting shows plans to retrofit and expand a former General Motors, now Foxconn plant at the site to manufacture data center-related equipment like NVIDIA servers. We have not seen visual evidence of large data center construction, but we believe there will be a relatively small data center here based on the announcement and subsequent reporting. The capacity of the data center will probably be no more than 0.3 GW, because the announcement stated that the Milam County and Ohio sites could scale to 1.5 GW (combined) by 2027, and the former is planned for 1.2 GW.

Source: Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers, CC BY 4.0

1/3site roles identified1 site relationship1 finding in the company chain0 export-control designationsFurthest finding: company at site

Site data: Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers.

Ownership and operation

Plate I. Site owner, operator and hardware ownerscrutica.com · compiled Oct 25, 2026

AI hardware owner · per catalog

SoftBank Group Corp. parent ownership unresolved 1 finding

Which organisation owns the AI hardware inside it?

OpenAI Stargate LordstownSite

AI hardware owner · per catalog SoftBank Group Corp. Epoch AI's field for who owns the AI hardware, which it defines as not necessarily the owner or operator of the facility. source

Companies are grouped by their role at the site, with recorded parents above them. No parent companies were found in the ownership data. Further ownership remains unresolved where labelled. Record source: Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers; authority tier 2. Each role is drawn only as the relationship its own source establishes, listed above; none implies exclusive control of the full site. Ticks count the export-control and government-link findings for each company.
Plate II. Organisations recorded at the sitescrutica.com · compiled Oct 25, 2026

Uses the compute

OpenAI

Named in Epoch AI's field for labs using the compute; it records use, not a lease.

Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers source

One relationship is recorded at OpenAI Stargate Lordstown, labelled “Uses the compute”.

Export controls and government links

No export-control designations were found in the checked company chains.

Plate III. Export controls and government linksscrutica.com · compiled Oct 25, 2026
site1A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in Japancompany levels
Company at site

Headquarters jurisdiction
A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in Japan

Japan: METI administers the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (FEFTA), including the July 2023 23-item semiconductor-equipment list and the post-2024 catch-all clause. Export-control regimes listed for this jurisdiction: Wassenaar Arrangement, Japan FEFTA controls.

Country is the recorded headquarters location.Linked through the company recorded as owning the AI hardware inside this site.

Triangle: export-control designation or regulatory flag. Square: sovereign capital linkage. Circle: headquarters jurisdiction. Level 1 is a company at the site; higher levels are its parents. 1 finding is recorded; 0 are export-control designations.

Capacity

Reading. Power and acceleratorsscrutica.com · compiled Oct 25, 2026

No power figure is recorded for this site.

Methods and sources

Ownership roles

Title identifies the legal owner of the site; operation identifies who runs it. AI-hardware ownership follows the catalog’s attribution of the machines inside, whose owner may lease the facility.

Each role requires its own attribution. An operator named in a source supplies evidence of operation only.

Parent companies

Ownership checks start with each company named at the site and follow recorded parent relationships. A company holding several roles is checked once. Its linked company page lists the relationships and their sources; further parents may remain undocumented.

Level 1 identifies a company at the site, level 2 its parent, and each further level another parent. Export-control designations and government investments are assigned to the company concerned.

Missing values

Unrecorded roles remain blank. Findings whose company position is unresolved stay in the list with that position labelled unknown.

Publication limits

Subscription corporate data helps identify parent relationships and sovereign investments. Publication is limited to relationship classes and supporting public sources; licensed records, identifiers and values are withheld.

Epoch AI estimates capacity using satellite imagery, permits and corporate disclosures. Its catalog is the source for this site record.

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