OpenAI Will Not Expand Abilene Data Center, Nvidia Tries to Recruit Meta to Site

OpenAI Will Not Expand Abilene Data Center, Nvidia Tries to Recruit Meta to Site

By Anissa Gardizy
Publication Date: 2026-03-06 22:07:00

Oracle and OpenAI will not expand their data center footprint at their Abilene, Texas campus beyond the initial 1.2 gigawatts, at a site being developed by startup Crusoe, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

Oracle has leased eight buildings in Abilene for OpenAI, with the capacity to hold around 400,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs when completed, although only two of the