Data center · Facility
AnnouncedOpenAI data center in Lordstown, Ohio
Announced Sep 23, 2025, in Trumbull County. No permit on record yet.
No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.
Where
Lordstown, Trumbull County, Ohio.
Exact site not public. Shown at township level.
- Reported capacity
- 1,500MW
- Planned, as Compute Atlas (Jul 6, 2026) reports it. 6 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
- Work it brings
- Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
- The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
- Who bills here
- OpenAI
- The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.
Nearest other build
0.9 miles away
Builds in Trumbull County
Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.
Builds in Ohio
Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.
U.S. data center construction
August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.
What this means for you
Same customers, bigger invoices.
The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills OpenAI, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.
An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
Who your invoice goes to
- OpenAIOperator
- General contractorNot named yet
- CarriersNot named yet
- UtilityNot named yet
Key facts
- Stage
- Under constructionCompute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Reported capacity
- 1500 MWCompute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026
- Reported building area
- 6 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Reported investment
- $3Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Announced
- Sep 23, 2025Compute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026
- Construction start reported
- 2025Compute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026
- Expected completion
- 2026Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Lordstown, Trumbull County, OhioCompute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Power source
- Grid powerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Cooling
- Closed loopKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026
- Facility type
- AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- Incentives reported
- Ohio data-center sales-tax exemption (ORC §122.175, via JobsOhio / Ohio Tax Credit Authority) — statutory program; no OTCA approval confirmed for the Crescent Dune LLC / SoftBank / OpenAI site, and a moratorium on new data-center exemptions was in effect (2025–2026) (Ohio)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
What the public record lacks: the jobs and the general contractor's name.
Who's involved
- Operator
- OpenAICompute Atlas · Jul 6, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
- Utility
- FirstEnergy (Ohio Edison)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
- General contractor
- Not named in a public record yet
- Carriers
- Appear here as the records name them
How far along it is
- · Compute Atlas
Construction start
- · Server Country
Reported as announced
- · Compute Atlas
Reported as announced
- · Server Country
Expected completion
- · Kapwork's date
First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)
- · Kapwork's date
Stage under construction first seen by Kapwork
- Date not reported · Server Country
Expected completion reported
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.
More builds
Same operator
In Ohio
The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 63 published builds in Ohio, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.
Questions this page answers
Is Stargate Lordstown Campus under construction?
Who is building Stargate Lordstown Campus?
When is Stargate Lordstown Campus expected to finish?
Which carriers serve Stargate Lordstown Campus?
How do contractors on Stargate Lordstown Campus get paid sooner?
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Sources, updates and data
Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30
Where this comes from
- Compute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)
Record stargate-lordstown-oh · As of Jul 6, 2026 - OpenAI (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 5, 2026 - WFMJ (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 5, 2026 - Business Journal Daily (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Tribune Chronicle (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Data Center Frontier (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - WFMJ (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Signal Ohio (cited by Compute Atlas)
As of Jul 6, 2026 - Server Country project record (CC BY 4.0)
Record 0992 · As of Sep 24, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)
Merged view of the sources here · snapshot Nov 2, 2026 - U.S. Census Bureau, Construction Spending (Value of Construction Put in Place, C30)
National data center spending · August 2026 · released Oct 1, 2026 - Kapwork Grow tracker
Counts, nearest build and first-seen dates (Kapwork's dates), published Nov 3, 2026. Tracker snapshot Nov 2, 2026; sources fetched: Compute Atlas Sep 24, 2026; Server Country Sep 24, 2026; Pennsylvania DEP Sep 24, 2026; EPA ECHO Sep 24, 2026; Texas Comptroller Sep 24, 2026; UVA DC-SENSE Sep 24, 2026; Public Evidence Project Sep 24, 2026.
What each source reports
- Compute Atlas: Under construction, 1,500 MW
- Server Country: Under construction, as “OpenAI Stargate Lordstown Campus”
Updates
- Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
- Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: Stage under construction first seen by Kapwork. Kapwork's date
- Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
- 2026: Expected completion. Server Country
- Sep 23, 2025: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
- Sep 22, 2025: Reported as announced. Server Country
- 2025: Construction start. Compute Atlas
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.
What we don't know yet
- The jobs and the general contractor's name.
- The carriers that serve the campus.
- How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.
Spot an error? Tell us
Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Stargate Lordstown Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/stargate-lordstown-campus-oh-dc_054a295b8ab9, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.
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