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# OpenAI Stargate Lordstown

Facility record `fac-epoch-openai-stargate-lordstown` — data source: epoch-ai (https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers); authority tier 2

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | manufacturing |
| Status | under_construction |
| Location | Lordstown, Ohio, US (41.148637, -80.875674) |
| Power capacity | not published MW |
| IT load | not published |
| GPU count | not published |
| Peak PFLOPS (FP16) | not published |
| Owner | SoftBank Group Corp. |
| Operator | SoftBank Group Corp. |
| Announced | not published |
| Operational | not published |

The Stargate data center campus in Lordstown, Ohio is one of a set of 5 Stargate sites that were [announced in tandem](https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/). 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 announ

## Data-quality flags

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## Cite

> Scrutica, "OpenAI Stargate Lordstown" (facility record), https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-openai-stargate-lordstown; data source: epoch-ai; accessed 2026-07-27.

Full interactive record: https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-openai-stargate-lordstown · Methodology for derived values: https://scrutica.com/methodology#flop-estimation · All programmatic surfaces: https://scrutica.com/agents