Stargate's first data center campus in Texas, a joint venture by Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank, could cost an estimated $1.1 billion.

Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 jobs.

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. Or

Stargate was introduced earlier this week as a data center project intended to power AI systems for OpenAI, which has distanced itself from Microsoft due to its unwillingness to provide more resources.

Stargate — the joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle — is starting its AI infrastructure plans with 10 data centers in Texas.