Vantage Data Centers has officially broken ground on a massive data center campus in Texas that will support Oracle and OpenAI’s rapidly expanding Stargate initiative, marking one of the largest single-site data center developments announced in the U.S. to date.
The company confirmed the milestone in a LinkedIn post over the weekend following a groundbreaking ceremony for its Frontier campus in Shackelford County, Texas.
“This week, Vantage Data Centers hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for our Frontier campus in Shackelford County, Texas,” the company announced. “Part of Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate expansion, the 1.4GW campus will lead to advancements in AI while creating significant regional economic growth, including employing more than 5,000 individuals across construction and operations.”
At full build-out, the 1,200-acre Frontier campus will include 10 single-story data center buildings totaling approximately 3.7 million square feet. The site is designed to deliver 1.4 gigawatts of capacity and will support both air- and liquid-cooled infrastructure, with rack densities exceeding 250kW—well above traditional hyperscale norms. Each facility will feature three meet-me rooms to support high-capacity connectivity.
The first data center building on the campus is scheduled to go live in the second half of 2026, with additional phases expected to follow as demand from AI workloads continues to accelerate.
Shackelford County is located roughly 125 miles west of Fort Worth and near Abilene, where Crusoe is developing another large-scale data center campus tied to Oracle and OpenAI. Albany, the county’s largest city, sits approximately 35 miles northeast of Abilene, placing the Frontier campus within a growing corridor of AI-focused infrastructure investment.
Reports that Vantage was pursuing a large Texas data center site surfaced earlier this year, though details were initially limited. The company formally unveiled the Frontier campus in August, stating total investment in the project is expected to exceed $25 billion. OpenAI and Oracle were publicly linked to the site in October as part of a broader slate of Stargate-related announcements across the U.S.
Backed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake, Vantage operates or is developing data centers in numerous U.S. markets, including Ohio, Georgia, California, Virginia, Arizona, Indiana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Washington and Texas. While the company does not yet operate an active data center in Texas, it has previously filed plans for potential developments in San Antonio.
In addition to the Texas project, Vantage is also developing a separate Stargate data center site in Wisconsin, underscoring its growing role in supporting next-generation AI infrastructure nationwide.
Originally reported by Dan Swinhoe in Data Center Dynamics.
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