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Stargate site, Lordstown, Ohio has status as stated ↓ ground broken; stated to be on track to be operational in 2026
The September 2025 release stated that SoftBank had broken ground at the Lordstown, Ohio site, which it said was on track to be operational the following year. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-09-23 · announcement Stated dates (targets and terms, not events) target operation: 2026 Scope and limits A statement that ground was broken, dated by the release; no date of groundbreaking is given. "Operational next year" (2026) is a target, not an operation. No capacity is stated for Lordstown alone.
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OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites ↗ SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group) · 2025-09-23
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Paraphrase the same sentence says one of the two SoftBank–OpenAI sites is located in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 1a993c3440862bb1f2157560f56f5df305cbf48be9346370ebd9be533d635d93). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dated "September 24, 2025 (Texas, September 23, 2025)" and attributed to OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group Corp. OpenAI's own post (openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/) refused retrieval; the cross-family checker should open it or its capture and compare. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a3d77f8db28800481eac9625ed0caf759b0f12015cf3b6f9f139cd330cc28292). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group), “OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites”, 2025-09-23. 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 paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 21) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites ↗ SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group) · 2025-09-23
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Source excerpt “SoftBank has broken ground on an advanced data center design which is on track to be operational next year” Location in source paragraph 3
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 1a993c3440862bb1f2157560f56f5df305cbf48be9346370ebd9be533d635d93). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dated "September 24, 2025 (Texas, September 23, 2025)" and attributed to OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group Corp. OpenAI's own post (openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/) refused retrieval; the cross-family checker should open it or its capture and compare. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 a3d77f8db28800481eac9625ed0caf759b0f12015cf3b6f9f139cd330cc28292). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution SoftBank Group Corp. (joint release of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group), “OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites”, 2025-09-23. 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 (19 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 a3d77f8db28800481eac9625ed0caf759b0f12015cf3b6f9f139cd330cc28292; 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 21) 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.
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