Claim · 2025-09-23 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

The September 2025 release stated that the Lordstown and Milam County sites together "can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months".

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What it connects

SoftBank Group → planned capacity for → Lordstown and Milam County Stargate sites (together)

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Claim and evidence

SoftBank Groupplanned capacity for ↓Lordstown and Milam County Stargate sites (together)

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2025-09-23 · announcement
Figure measures: not stated by the source
Stated dates (targets and terms, not events): target operation: over the next 18 months
Transaction type: compute capacity
Relationship context: external
Stage: planned
Quantity: up to · 1.5 GW (as worded: "can scale to 1.5 gigawatts")

Scope and limitsA stated potential for two sites together, not built capacity and not a figure for either site. The release does not say what the gigawatts measure. The 18-month horizon is a projection.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports 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

“can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months”

Location in source paragraph 3

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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 (10 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. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports 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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Paraphrase

"the other two Stargate sites" are the Lordstown, Ohio and Milam County, Texas sites named in the same paragraph.

Location in source paragraph 3

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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. 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. Planned capacity of an identified compute asset or, from schema 2.21, of a group of sites a source states together (a literal naming the group). No deployment, operation, procurement or ownership is established, and a group’s figure is never divided among its sites.

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

Record ID cpo-dc-stargate-softbank-sites-capacity