OpenAI's Abilene super data center built in just two years, hailed as "birthplace of AGI"
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-09-07
- Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller congratulated OpenAI on completing its Abilene, Texas super data center (part of the Stargate project) in roughly two years.
- Replies marveled at the construction speed ("they literally built this in 2 years") and joked that Abilene is the "birthplace of AGI".
- The site is a flagship piece of OpenAI's massive compute infrastructure buildout.
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