Crusoe has energized the first phase of its flagship AI data center campus in Abilene, Texas, marking a key milestone in its collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Construction began in June 2024, and within just over a year, the first two buildings came online. Oracle started delivering NVIDIA GB200 racks in June 2025, and the site is already supporting early training and inference workloads.
The Abilene campus is designed as a purpose-built AI data center with innovative cooling systems to handle high energy-density hardware. When complete, the eight-building complex will host hundreds of thousands of GPUs connected on a single integrated fabric. This project underscores Crusoe’s strategy to deliver vertically integrated AI infrastructure at speed, aiming to help the U.S. scale AI capacity to meet surging demand.
The partnership deepens Oracle’s position in AI infrastructure buildout and highlights Crusoe’s execution in data center development. Oracle called Crusoe a trusted partner capable of meeting the velocity and scale required for next-generation AI workloads.
- First two buildings energized within a year of breaking ground in June 2024
- NVIDIA GB200 racks delivered by Oracle in June 2025
- Abilene campus designed for both liquid and air cooling
- Eight-building site planned to support hundreds of thousands of GPUs
- Early training and inference workloads already running on OCI
“One of the defining challenges of our generation is to energize AI infrastructure at the scale needed to power the ambitions of our world’s greatest innovators,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO of Crusoe.
🌐 Analysis: Crusoe’s rapid progress in Abilene illustrates the accelerating pace of U.S.-based AI infrastructure development, where hyperscale demand for GPU capacity is driving new models of vertically integrated data center design. Oracle’s collaboration with Crusoe complements its recent investments in Stargate and positions it alongside other hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Google that are scaling AI infrastructure through strategic partnerships with specialized data center developers.
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