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Lancium Abilene Clean Campus III

The first of the six certifications that took the Abilene campus from two buildings to eight. The state made it effective in the week after the Stargate program was announced and more than a month before the expansion itself was.

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What the record establishes

Buildings on the campus after the announced expansion
8 buildings[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Buildings on the campus before it
2 buildings[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Campus floor area announced
4,000,000 sq ft[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Campus capacity announced
1.2 GW[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Floor area of the first two buildings
980,000 sq ft[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Capacity of the first two buildings
200 MW[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Workforce announced at peak
5,000 workers[3]as of March 18th, 2025
Owner of record
Abilene DC 3 LLC[1]registry read August 22nd, 2026
Occupant of record
Oracle America Cloud Services[1]registry read August 22nd, 2026
Location
Abilene, Taylor County[4]
Second phase completion announced
Mid 2026[3]as of March 18th, 2025

What changes the reading

  • Two campuses in this record answer to the name Abilene and they are not in the same county. This one is inside Abilene in Taylor County. The Vantage campus runs under an Abilene mailing address from Shackelford County, which is ordinary for a rural site served by a distant post office. Both are occupied by the same Oracle entity, so a reader working from the city line alone would take them for one place.[1][2]
  • The two state registers do not agree about how much of this campus exists on paper. The Comptroller has certified every building of the announced campus. The construction register carries filings for the first two and none for the rest.[1][2]
  • It stands alone in the record. The other five certifications of this expansion were made effective together, weeks later.[1]

Still not public

  • Which physical building each numbered certification covers is not stated.
  • Per building capacity is not public.
  • The later buildings have no filing in the state construction register.
  • Water sourcing and cooling design are not public.
  • The street address is not in the certification.

Source trail

  1. Data Center ListsTexas Comptroller of Public AccountsfilingRead August 22nd, 2026.
  2. Texas Architectural Barriers Project SearchTexas Department of Licensing and RegulationfilingRead August 22nd, 2026.
  3. Crusoe Expands AI Data Center Campus in Abilene to 1.2 GigawattsCrusoecompanyRead August 22nd, 2026.
  4. Expanded Development within Lancium's Clean Campus through Crusoe's Data CenterDevelopment Corporation of Abilenelocal governmentRead August 22nd, 2026.
  5. Announcing The Stargate ProjectOpenAIcompanyRead August 22nd, 2026.

The registry entry for this facility comes from the Texas Comptroller's certified list of data centers holding a sales tax exemption. Owner, occupant and operator are roles in that filing rather than descriptions of who runs the building.