Claim · 2025-03-18 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Crusoe stated in March 2025 that it began constructing its Abilene AI data center in June 2024 and that the initial phase, two buildings and 200+ megawatts, was expected to be energized in the first half of 2025.

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What it connects

→ has status as stated → initial phase under construction since June 2024; energization targeted for first half of 2025

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

has status as stated ↓initial phase under construction since June 2024; energization targeted for first half of 2025

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2025-03-18 · announcement
Figure measures: not stated by the source
Stated dates (targets and terms, not events): construction start stated: 2024-06; target operation: first half of 2025
Quantity: more than · 200 MW (as worded: "200+ megawatts")

Scope and limitsConstruction start as stated by Crusoe in March 2025 (not a contemporaneous record); energization in 2025 is a target in this release. Crusoe does not name Stargate, OpenAI or Oracle; whether this campus is the dataset's Stargate I is not stated in Crusoe's texts read here.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts

Crusoe · 2025-03-18

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Source excerpt

“Crusoe began constructing the AI data center in Abilene in June 2024.”

Location in source paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Crusoe
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 21abe15695f7c3738af5ac28c55bb5bbf950fa07a78606803491958873c89e91). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ABILENE, TX / March 18, 2025". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 5b38dbc59659b03a34f3ac2c881cbad1ccc2b63e701490212eb5453e0629f5ad). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Crusoe, “Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts”, 2025-03-18.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (12 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 5b38dbc59659b03a34f3ac2c881cbad1ccc2b63e701490212eb5453e0629f5ad; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 2) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts

Crusoe · 2025-03-18

Cite the original source

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Source excerpt

“comprising two buildings at 980,000 square feet and 200+ megawatts, is expected to be energized in the first half of 2025”

Location in source paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Crusoe
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 21abe15695f7c3738af5ac28c55bb5bbf950fa07a78606803491958873c89e91). Newsroom page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ABILENE, TX / March 18, 2025". Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 5b38dbc59659b03a34f3ac2c881cbad1ccc2b63e701490212eb5453e0629f5ad). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Crusoe, “Crusoe expands AI data center campus in Abilene to 1.2 gigawatts”, 2025-03-18.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (21 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 5b38dbc59659b03a34f3ac2c881cbad1ccc2b63e701490212eb5453e0629f5ad; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 2) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A party states the status of an infrastructure or programme, such as construction under way, energised or operating, dated by the statement. It is the stating party’s account, not an independent finding, and a stated status is not extended beyond what the statement covers.

Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-dc-crusoe-abilene-initial-phase