Vantage Data Centers has announced its largest project to date, committing more than $25 billion to build a 1.4-gigawatt artificial-intelligence campus in Shackelford County, Texas. Branded “Frontier,” the development will span 3.7 million square feet across 10 liquid-cooled data halls and is designed to accommodate ultra-high-density GPU racks. Construction is already under way, with the first building due in the second half of 2026 and total employment, including ongoing operations, expected to exceed 5,000. The record-sized project caps a week of outsized infrastructure spending by other AI players. Applied Digital said it will break ground in September 2025 on Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280-megawatt campus near Harwood, North Dakota, that is slated to create about 200 jobs and enter service in 2027. Separately, Elon Musk’s xAI plans to invest more than $40 billion at its Colossus complex, beginning with 208 Tesla Megapacks and a 500-acre solar array to power the first two buildings that go under construction next month. All three facilities are being purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference workloads, reflecting soaring demand for high-performance computing capacity. The sites employ liquid cooling, on-site battery storage and, in xAI’s case, dedicated renewable generation to manage power densities that can exceed 250 kilowatts per rack. Analysts say the investment surge is exposing constraints in the United States’ aging electricity network. The Department of Energy projects that data centers could consume 6.7–12 percent of U.S. power by 2028, up from roughly 4.4 percent in 2023, while Goldman Sachs estimates that individual grid-connection requests now routinely top 5 gigawatts—enough for five million homes. To keep construction timetables on track, operators are increasingly turning to private generation, large-scale battery farms and lobbying campaigns for faster environmental permitting. Whether those measures will arrive quickly enough remains a central question as the AI build-out accelerates.