Data center campus
Stargate Lordstown (Ohio)
Stargate Lordstown is an announced AI data center campus. 0.30 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Announced · Former industrial site · PJM · Lordstown, Ohio, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced
0.30 GW
claimed
Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
0 GW
reported
Announced-to-energized gap: 0.30 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 0.30 GW | 2026-04-17 | claimed | journalist report |
| Announced | 1.50 GW | 2025-09-24 | claimed | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-07-01 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- tenant
- OpenAI · Anchor tenant / Stargate program lead.
- developer
- SoftBank Group · SoftBank/OpenAI-led site; SB Energy is the power/development subsidiary.
- construction
- Foxconn · SoftBank-Foxconn JV; former Foxconn EV plant repurposed for server/equipment manufacturing.
- chip supplier
- Nvidia · GPU supplier across the Stargate program.
- grid operator
- PJM Interconnection · Northeast Ohio is in PJM; power expected from existing Foxconn substation / grid.
Power
- Power source
- grid
- Grid operator
- PJM
- Interconnection
Financial structure
- OpenAI + SoftBank capital into SB Energy
- $1B. Jan 2026: OpenAI and SoftBank each invested ~$500M in SoftBank's power subsidiary SB Energy to accelerate Stargate power/datacenter buildout; SB Energy-wide, not Lordstown-specific. journalist report
- SoftBank acquisition of former Foxconn Ohio EV plant
- $375M. Aug 2025 purchase of the Lordstown facility, converted to modular AI-server/equipment production under a SoftBank-Foxconn JV. journalist report
Sources
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · OpenAI
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites · SoftBank Group
- OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand · Epoch AI
8eb98cdb-8ad1-4fe9-9385-f6c54e2db0b6 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.