As energy demand surges, largely due to crypto mining facilities, data centers and industrial electrification, Texas officials are looking at how to increase supply and shore up the grid.

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.

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

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,

Texas will be home to a new joint venture that will make the state ground zero for the development of artificial intelligence in the United States.

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.