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OpenAI Stargate Shackelford

TypeAI TrainingStatusUnder constructionWhereAbilene, Texas, USIndexed fromEpoch AI Frontier Data Centers

Under construction; Oracle Corporation is recorded as owning the AI hardware inside this site

Description quoted from Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers

Stargate Shackelford is the second US site in the Stargate project led by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank. Just 20km from the original Abilene site, this site is developed by data center colocation company Vantage, who refers to it as "Frontier". In September 2025, OpenAI announced a site in Shackelford County, Texas, and Vantage later confirmed their data center is part of Stargate. The date that this campus reaches full capacity is speculative. However, Vantage states the planned capacity on their website, along with the delivery date of the first building in late 2026. We estimate compute capacity based on the best NVIDIA AI servers expected to be available as each building comes online.

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

Oracle Corporation parent ownership unresolved 1 finding

Which organisation owns the AI hardware inside it?

OpenAI Stargate ShackelfordSite

AI hardware owner · per catalog Oracle Corporation. 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 Shackelford, 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 the United Statescompany levels
Company at site

Headquarters jurisdiction
A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in the United States

United States: Operates the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the BIS Entity List under 15 CFR 730–774; deemed-export rules extend reach to foreign nationals on US soil. Export-control regimes listed for this jurisdiction: Wassenaar Arrangement, US EAR (BIS Entity List authority).

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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