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Vantage “Frontier” Campus (Stargate Shackelford)

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Stargate: Shackelford County
Under construction

Vantage's largest-ever campus: ten buildings and 1.4 GW on 1,200 acres, developed with Oracle as part of Stargate's Texas expansion, with its own off-grid gas microgrid sidestepping the ERCOT interconnection queue.

1.4 GWPlanned power
Developer
Vantage Data Centers
Owner
Vantage Data Centers
Tenant
Oracle (lease for AI servers) → OpenAI (Stargate)
Power detail
1.4 GW campus; VoltaGrid permitted for 700 MW behind-the-meter gas (210 Jenbacher engines), operating off-grid from ERCOT
Power source
700 MW behind-the-meter natural gas microgrid (TCEQ-permitted), fully off ERCOT grid
Cooling
Liquid cooling; closed-loop chiller system (minimal water use)
Compute
Ultra-high-density racks of 250 kW+; built for next-gen GPU loads
Construction start
Dec 2025 (groundbreaking)
Est. completion
Vantage still advertises first delivery 2H 2026; state construction filings show no building completing before Feb 2027, with the last in May 2028 (filed, not disclosed by the developer)
Grid strategy
Off-grid
County
Shackelford
Nearest city
Albany / Moran (near Abilene)
Announced
2025-09-23