North America / facility / reviewed 2026-09-28
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.
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Develops and co-sponsors campus
Crusoe → Abilene / Lancium campus
Crusoe’s data-center development role is documented separately from Lancium’s land and power responsibilities.
2025-05-21 · developer operator
Funds co-sponsor project JV
Blue Owl Capital → Abilene / Lancium campus
Blue Owl-managed Real Assets funds co-sponsor the expanded eight-building project.
2025-05-21 · project finance sponsor
Co-sponsors project JV
Primary Digital Infrastructure → Abilene / Lancium campus
Primary Digital Infrastructure is named alongside Crusoe and Blue Owl; no separate contribution is disclosed.
2025-05-21 · project finance sponsor
Land and power infrastructure
Lancium → Abilene / Lancium campus
Lancium identifies land ownership, grid interconnection and energy orchestration as its campus responsibilities.
2026-07-15 · land and power infrastructure
Operates initial cloud infrastructure
Oracle → Abilene / Lancium campus
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
Uses early training and inference capacity
OpenAI → Abilene / Lancium campus
OpenAI reported running initial workloads on OCI at Abilene. No direct landholding or building ownership is inferred.
2025-09-23 · compute customer
Physical project location
Abilene / Lancium campus → United States
The primary project announcement locates the campus in Abilene, Texas. Geography alone does not establish government ownership or funding.
2025-05-21 · located in
Proposed data-center levy scope
Abilene / Lancium campus → AI companies & data-center operators
This named data-center facility falls within the sector addressed by the independent regeneration proposal. The liable legal entity, assessment basis and collection jurisdiction remain policy questions; this is not an enacted obligation or a payment.
Date not isolated · proposed levy coverage
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USD 15 billion total joint-venture financing
Abilene: expanded project joint venture
Full project financing envelope shared across sponsors and phases. It is not each partner’s contribution, a facility purchase price, or a verified spent-to-date figure. Earlier phase financing may be contained within this total.
2025-05-21 · Expanded joint venture announced May 2025 · documented
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- Abilene joint venture expands to USD 15 billionCrusoe · 2025-05-21 · source access 2026-09-28
Joint-venture funding envelope covering the expanded campus, not each sponsor’s contribution or verified spending.
- Crusoe development at Lancium’s Abilene campusLancium · 2024-07-18 · source access 2026-09-28
Distinguishes Crusoe’s data-center development from Lancium’s campus and energy-infrastructure role.
- Lancium and Crusoe explain their campus partnership modelLancium · 2026-07-15 · source access 2026-09-28
Childress announcement explicitly describes the same division of land/power and data-center roles used in Abilene.
- Abilene first phase running on Oracle Cloud InfrastructureCrusoe · 2025-09-30 · source access 2026-09-28
Confirms Oracle Cloud Infrastructure operation at the first phase, not completion of all planned buildings.
- Stargate expansion and initial Abilene workloadsOpenAI · 2025-09-23 · source access 2026-09-28
OpenAI confirms early training and inference workloads on OCI at Abilene. Use does not establish title to land or buildings.