From the cloud to a place
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Abilene / Lancium campus
Named Texas campus connecting land, power, development and capital.
This record covers the 1.2 GW Abilene development described in 2025. A later adjacent project is not merged into its finance record.
What is disclosed?
● Operations & maintenance services: record present○ Construction & fit-out: not established here○ Equipment & building systems: not established here● Owners, developers, operators & clients: record present● Capital & financing: record present
Operations & maintenance services
Operates initial cloud infrastructure
The developer identifies Oracle Cloud Infrastructure running at the first phase; this does not mean every planned building was operational.
2025-09-30 · Cloud infrastructure operation
Inspect this relationship ↗Owners, developers, operators & clients
Develops and co-sponsors campus
Crusoe’s data-center development role is documented separately from Lancium’s land and power responsibilities.
2025-05-21 · Developer operator
Land and power infrastructure
Lancium identifies land ownership, grid interconnection and energy orchestration as its campus responsibilities.
2026-07-15 · Land and power infrastructure
Uses early training and inference capacity
OpenAI reported running initial workloads on OCI at Abilene. No direct landholding or building ownership is inferred.
2025-09-23 · Compute customer
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Funds co-sponsor project JV
Blue Owl-managed Real Assets funds co-sponsor the expanded eight-building project.
2025-05-21 · Project finance sponsor
Inspect this relationship ↗Co-sponsors project JV
Primary Digital Infrastructure is named alongside Crusoe and Blue Owl; no separate contribution is disclosed.
2025-05-21 · Project finance sponsor
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Physical project location
The primary project announcement locates the campus in Abilene, Texas. Geography alone does not establish government ownership or funding.
2025-05-21 · Located in
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