By Bloomberg Wire
In a small Texas city nearly 200 miles west of Dallas, the first data center associated with the $100 billion Stargate venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. is taking shape.
About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, according to city documents seen by Bloomberg News. These data centers will help power cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems from OpenAI.
Although the area to have for the knowledge centers is immense, the number of full -time guaranteed works is not. The task is expected to believe at least 57 full -time positions that win an average salary of $ 57,600 per year, according to the documents, the final figure may be higher.
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The details, some of which have not been reported in the past, reflect the scale of Stargate’s ambition and the uncertainty around its long-term job creation potential. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced the venture along with Ellison and other tech companies. executives, and said it would create “more than 100,000 American jobs. “In a blog post, Openai went further, saying that those investments, which are expected to come with infrastructure projects across the country over the next few years, would “create burdens of thousands of American jobs. “
On Thursday, Trump doubled down on his efforts with an executive order, calling for an AI policy that his team said would “make America the world capital in artificial intelligence.”
Typically, knowledge media projects like the one underway at Abilene’s massive task creators. They result in far fewer long-term employment opportunities than classic tech campuses. Although there is an initial explosion of structure roles to build those facilities, knowledge media requires minimal full-time staff once operational.
OpenAI-backer Microsoft, for example, employed just 325 people across all its data centers in Texas, according to a report from the company published last April. The software maker expects to have 791 full-time employees and contractors in its operational facilities in Texas by the end of 2026 and nearly 3,000 construction jobs, the report said.
In Abilene, the 57 promised works are only a minimum guarantee on a single Stargate site. The Abilene’s Development Corporation said he expects the creation of a hundred “highly qualified” works from the first phase of progression of the site. A spokesman for Crusoe Energy Systems, one of the developers on the site, also said that he waits for more than one hundred full -time works in roles such as technical data of centers, turbine operators and maintenance work. Lately there are more than 1,000 construction employees on the site, Crusoe said.
An OpenAI spokesperson said the site in Abilene is “the first of many we will be building across the country through the Stargate Project, which we know will generate hundreds of thousands of construction jobs — electricians, carpenters, laborers, truck drivers — in the same way historically large infrastructure projects create such hard hat jobs.” Oracle and Softbank didn’t comment.
In a policy proposal published through Openai in November, the maker of ChatGPT outlined how structuring an unprecedented five gigawatt Medium Knowledge Campus, enough to power entire cities, would create or more than 44,000 jobs worldwide. Texas, and a comparable number in other states. That figure included 14,000 structural jobs as well as oblique employee spending jobs in the region, according to the report.
The data centers in Abilene will be smaller than that. Crusoe said in July that the first phase of the project will be for a 200-megawatt data center, with plans to expand to 1.2 gigawatts of power.
In almost every respect, the Abilene framework is a massive project, reflecting the development desires of technology corporations to create more complex AI services. In Texas, 1 Gigawatt is enough to power 200,000 homes. And the installation area will be extensive.
“The first ones are under construction in Texas; each structure represents a portion of a million square feet,” Ellison said Tuesday at a White House news conference. “There are 10 structures under construction, but this number will expand to 20 in other locations besides Abilene, which is the first. “
On this land in Abilene, knowledge centers already leased to Oracle through Crusoe, Blue Owl Capital Inc. and primary digital infrastructure are being built, with investments from JPMorgan Chase
The total cost of the task has been reduced thanks to the tax exemptions granted by the city. Abilene granted the task of the Knowledge Center an 85 % relief in its taxes on assets during the two decades of operation, according to city documents. Taylor County, which includes Abilene, has also signed an assignment assistance agreement.
Construction of the Abilene allocation will have to be finalized by August 2026, according to the city’s agreements with Crusoe and Lancium, an indexed energy startup as the site’s lead developer.
Brody Ford, Shirin Ghaffary and Sarah McBride for Bloomberg with Dina Bass, Natalie Wong and Natalie Lung.