Despite its massive scale, Stargate intends to employ “at least” 57 full-time employees earning an average wage of just $57,600 annually, according to documents seen by Bloomberg regarding the ambitious data center project.

The rise of artificial intelligence, the digitization of the economy and everyday life’s growing computing needs have turbocharged the expansion of data centers, driving up a surge in electricity demand in Texas and across the country.

About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, according to city documents seen by Bloomberg News. Or

Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 jobs.

Joint venture Stargate will be building out data centers and beefing up electricity generation to support the fast-evolving artificial intelligence scene.

In a small Texas city nearly 200 miles west of Dallas, the first data center associated with the US$100 billion Stargate venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group and Oracle is taking shape.

Texas' growth as a technology and data homebase isn't slowing down anytime soon. This week, three firms announced the development of a massive, $1 billion data center being planned for North Texas.

President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate Project in Texas to advance AI research, starting with a data center in Abilene.

This week's announcement by President Donald Trump of a massive private-sector investment to build more AI data centers casts a spotlight on a relatively small and nimble class of cloud computing firms positioned to play a bigger role in the tech sector.

In a small Texas city nearly 200 miles west of Dallas, the first data center associated with the $100 billion Stargate venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. is taking shape. About 875 acres in Abilene,