Crusoe has officially powered up the first phase of its flagship Stargate data center campus in Abilene, Texas, developed in partnership with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The rapid deployment—going from groundbreaking in June 2024 to operational facilities running Nvidia GB200 racks just over a year later—represents a significant milestone in U.S. AI infrastructure development and demonstrates how quickly large-scale AI computing facilities can be brought online.
What you should know: The Abilene campus is already processing AI training and inference workloads with cutting-edge hardware delivered by Oracle.
- Oracle began delivering Nvidia GB200 racks in June 2025, enabling the site to run early AI training and inference workloads immediately.
- Two buildings are currently live, with construction having begun just over a year ago in June 2024.
- The facility represents what Crusoe calls “the new blueprint for large-scale data center development.”
The big picture: At full buildout, the eight-building campus will create one of the largest integrated AI computing environments in the United States.
- The complete facility will host hundreds of thousands of GPUs linked through a single integrated network fabric.
- The campus uses an innovative mix of liquid and air cooling to support high energy-density AI workloads.
- This infrastructure approach could serve as a model for future large-scale AI data center developments.
Strategic partnership: Oracle’s collaboration with Crusoe reflects the urgent need for scalable AI infrastructure partners.
- “To meet the unprecedented demand for AI, Oracle needs partners that can operate at speed and scale, which Crusoe has delivered with unmatched execution in Abilene,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- The partnership demonstrates how cloud providers are working with specialized infrastructure companies to rapidly expand AI computing capacity.
What they’re saying: Crusoe’s leadership positions the project as addressing generational infrastructure challenges.
- “One of the defining challenges of our generation is to energize AI infrastructure at the scale needed to power the ambitions of our world’s greatest innovators,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO of Crusoe.
- “What you see in Abilene is the new blueprint for large-scale data center development.”
Financial context: Crusoe’s rapid infrastructure expansion comes as the company reportedly seeks significant new funding.
- Bloomberg reported in August that the company was in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation approaching $10 billion.
- The company was expected to raise around $1 billion through a mix of equity and debt, though the amount and valuation could still change.
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