Project Stargate | 5GW OpenAI AI Supercomputer & Hyperscale Infrastructure Hub

Status: Land Acquisition / Pre-Construction Planning   |   Location: 1,800-Acre Mega-Site, adjacent to Lordstown

Project Overview

Surfacing in detailed planning documents in early 2026, the Lordstown Campus is the anchor site for Project Stargate, the culminating Phase 5 of the Microsoft-OpenAI supercomputing roadmap. Representing an estimated $115 billion capital expenditure for this specific campus (out of a broader $400 billion national initiative), the site is engineered to train multi-trillion parameter models (e.g., GPT-6/7). To achieve the staggering 5 GW power requirement, Microsoft is executing a highly complex energy strategy: tapping into the existing Lordstown Energy Center (natural gas), leveraging FirstEnergy's high-voltage transmission lines, and aggressively pursuing Small Modular Reactor (SMR) integration by 2030. The facility completely abandons traditional air cooling; it is designed from the ground up for massive, continuous immersion and direct-to-chip liquid cooling to manage custom AI accelerators. Due to the extreme density of the networking requirements to link millions of GPUs, the campus will feature a proprietary ultra-short-reach optical mesh.

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