Vantage has broken ground on a new data center campus in Texas set to host hardware for OpenAI.

“This week, Vantage Data Centers hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for our Frontier campus in Shackelford County, Texas,” the company announced on LinkedIn over the weekend. “Part of Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate expansion, the 1.4GW campus will lead to advancements in AI while creating significant regional economic growth, including employing more than 5,000 individuals across construction and operations.”

At full build-out, the 1,200-acre campus will host 10 single-story data centers, totaling 1.4GW across some 3.7 million sq ft (343,740 sqm). The air- and liquid-cooled site will reportedly offer densities of more than 250kW per rack. Each building will have three meet-me rooms.

The first building is due to go live in the second half of 2026.

Shackleford County is some 125 miles west of Fort Worth, close to Abilene, where Crusoe is developing a large campus for Oracle and OpenAI. Albany, the biggest city in the county, is located some 35 miles northeast of Abilene.

News that Vantage was targeting a large campus in Texas surfaced in July, with the company acknowledging but not revealing more details. The company officially announced plans for the “Frontier” site in August, saying investment in the campus will total more than $25 billion. OpenAI and Oracle were officially tied to the site in October as part of a slew of new Stargate announcements in the US.

DigitalBridge and Silver Lake-backed Vantage operates or is developing data centers across the US, including in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, California, Virginia, Arizona, Indiana, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Washington. Vantage doesn’t currently operate any facilities in Texas, though it has previously filed to develop sites in San Antonio.

Vantage is also developing a Stargate site in Wisconsin.