Data center campus
Vantage Data Centers — Frontier (Shackelford County, TX)
Vantage Data Centers — Frontier is an announced AI data center campus. 1.40 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.
Under construction · Private land · ERCOT · Albany (Shackelford County), Texas, United States
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 1.40 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 | 1.40 GW | 2025-08-19 | claimed | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | journalist report |
| Under construction | 1.40 GW | 2026-01-01 | reported | journalist report |
The deal
- developer
- Vantage Data Centers · Owns and builds the campus; backed by DigitalBridge/Silver Lake.
- tenant
- OpenAI · Confirmed Stargate site; OpenAI is the anchor tenant.
- grid operator
- ERCOT · Texas grid region; campus designed off-grid via on-site gas.
Power
- Power source
- behind the meter gas
- Grid operator
- ERCOT
- Interconnection
Frontier behind-the-meter natural gas microgrid (phase 1), 0.70 GW gas, Permitted. ~210 generators, ~700 MW phase-one per TCEQ air-quality registrations; off-grid microgrid to avoid ERCOT queue.
Financial structure
- Total announced investment in Frontier
- $25B press release
Sources
- Vantage unveils Frontier, a $25B mega-campus in Texas · Vantage Data Centers
- Vantage breaks ground on Texas gigawatt data center campus for OpenAI · Data Center Dynamics
- New off-grid Texas data center to run on ~700MW natural gas microgrid · Construction Owners
- Scaling Stargate: OpenAI's five new US data centers · Data Center Frontier
438db243-7f68-4021-9f3f-0e6d09ca5fcf · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.