Vantage Data Centers is making a record-breaking move in Shackelford County, Texas, with plans to invest more than US$25 billion in a sprawling 1,200-acre campus. The project, dubbed “Frontier,” will include 10 data centers with a combined capacity of 1.4 gigawatts.

Backed by Silver Lake and DigitalBridge, Vantage has already broken ground, with the first building scheduled for completion in the second half of 2025. The facilities are being built to support ultra-high-density racks of more than 250 kilowatts each, a design aimed squarely at the surging demand created by artificial intelligence workloads.

The push reflects a broader trend across the tech sector, as companies ramp up infrastructure to power compute-heavy generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.