Update on OpenAI Stargate Shackelford (Vantage): Vantage started turning dirt August 7 and are humming right along. Here's the site as of this week.
red = transmission
blue = gas pipeline
black dot = oil/gas well
Credit: Copernicus, OpenStreetMap contributors, Bing

2/3rds of primary energy usage is wasted - just straight dissipated as heat to the environment. 2023 data from LLNL. flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/...

The chart data is from 2012, which is why there's so much coal and so little solar. Here's a cleaner version.

There are active oil & gas wells and pipelines on both the current 1,200 acres and the (presumed) expansion 1,300 acres. Seems like a bad mix for a data center. Maybe Vantage will buy them out and seal them. Red dots are unplugged wells, purple lines are pipelines.
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They don't have a warranty deed on the barn and residence in the south half. Regardless, the yellow and purple areas combined add up to 2,500 acres.
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So far, Vantage has closed on 1,200 acres, in yellow. If you look closely, you'll see 9 large wind turbines in the yellow. There's also a substation on site, but that's likely far too small for the full development. It's fed by a single 138 kV circuit.
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