$25B Vantage Frontier AI Data Center in Texas Needs 10 Low Voltage Systems

West Texas is now home to the largest data center campus in Vantage’s global portfolio, and it runs on low voltage. Vantage Data Centers’ Frontier campus — a $25 billion, 1.4 GW Oracle-OpenAI Stargate AI data center near Abilene — will require ten distinct low voltage systems, with an estimated campus-wide low voltage opportunity approaching $1 billion.

Project Overview

Project data shows Frontier rising on 1,200 acres in Shackelford County, roughly 125 miles west of Fort Worth in the fast-growing Abilene AI-infrastructure corridor. Developer Vantage Data Centers describes a $25 billion-plus campus of ten data centers totaling 3.7 million square feet with 1.4 GW of critical IT load — its largest project to date and part of the Oracle-OpenAI Stargate expansion.

• Project value: $25 billion+ — Vantage’s largest campus globally
• Location: Shackelford County, near Abilene, TX (~125 mi west of Fort Worth)
• Scale: 1,200 acres; 10 data centers; 3.7M sq ft; 1.4 GW critical IT load
• Current phase: Building 10 (TX310) is a $945M, 344,796 sq ft permit already under construction
• Timeline: First building live in H2 2026; full campus targeted for 2028
• Cooling: Air- and liquid-cooled, supporting 250kW+ per rack; 5,000+ construction and operations jobs

The Signal record carries an LV opportunity score of 10 out of 10 — the ceiling — reflecting the density of mission-critical systems a gigawatt-scale AI campus demands.

Key Players

This is a Tier 1 project with a public delivery roster. Low voltage contractors should note who holds the prime relationships:

Role	Company	Notes
Owner / Developer	Vantage Data Centers	Denver-based hyperscale developer; largest campus in its portfolio
Parent	DigitalBridge Group	Infrastructure investment platform
Design / EPC	Kiewit	Source-backed design-firm / EPC signal on Building 10
Tenants	Oracle & OpenAI	Stargate AI compute end-users
Carrier Fiber	AT&T, FiberLight, Windstream, Zayo	Carrier-neutral connectivity partners

For LV specialists, the structured cabling, fiber, OSP, and physical-security scopes will flow through the EPC package building by building. With ten data centers on a phased buildout to 2028, Frontier represents a rare multi-year, multi-building pipeline in a single Texas market.

Low Voltage Systems Breakdown

A hyperscale AI data center is one of the most low-voltage-intensive structures built today. Signal identifies ten systems in scope on Frontier:

System	Scope	Complexity
Fiber Backbone	Campus and inter-building single-mode fiber; three meet-me rooms per building	Very High
Structured Cabling	High-density copper and fiber to compute, storage, and network rows	Very High
Outside Plant (OSP)	Duct bank, conduit, and campus fiber across 1,200 acres	High
Networking	Passive infrastructure for AI fabric and management networks	Very High
Access Control	Multi-layer perimeter, mantrap, and cage-level credentialing	High
CCTV / Video Surveillance	Full-coverage IP video, analytics, and retention	High
Fire Alarm & Detection	VESDA aspirating detection, clean-agent interface, mass notification	Very High
BMS / Building Controls	Liquid-cooling, power, and environmental monitoring integration	Very High
DAS	In-building cellular and public-safety radio coverage	Medium
Grounding & Bonding	Signal reference grid, lightning protection, equipment bonding	High

Estimated Low Voltage Value

Signal estimates the campus-wide low voltage and structured infrastructure opportunity at approximately $1 billion — roughly 4% of the $25 billion campus value, a benchmark consistent with hyperscale data center construction where mission-critical cabling, physical security, and controls carry an outsized share of the technology budget.

That figure is not a single award. It represents the aggregate LV scope across all ten data centers, delivered in phases over the buildout to 2028. The current under-construction package alone — the $945 million Building 10 — implies tens of millions in low voltage work, and it is one of ten. For contractors, the takeaway is scale: a single-system package on one Frontier building can exceed the total value of a typical commercial project.

Skills & Certifications

Winning work on a hyperscale AI campus requires credentials well beyond standard commercial LV. Expect owners and primes to require:

• BICSI RCDD and DCDC (Data Center Design Consultant) — the baseline for mission-critical cabling design
• BICSI INSTC / INSTF and FOA CFOT — certified fiber installation and termination at scale
• NICET Fire Alarm Level II+ with VESDA / aspirating detection and clean-agent experience
• Manufacturer certifications for access control and IP video (Genetec, Lenel, Software House, Axis)
• IEEE / BICSI grounding and bonding competency for signal reference grids and lightning protection
• OT / BMS integration and IEC 62443 awareness for liquid-cooling controls and controls-network cybersecurity
• Capacity to meet hyperscale safety, scheduling, and EPC coordination requirements across a 10-building campus

Market Signal

Frontier cements the Abilene corridor as one of the most important AI infrastructure markets in the country — it sits alongside the original Stargate flagship in the same West Texas region. It is also one of a national cluster Signal is now tracking, from the Oracle-OpenAI campuses in Michigan and Wisconsin to Hut 8 on the Gulf Coast and Meta in Louisiana. Every one carries a perfect 10 LV opportunity score and the same ten-system profile.

For low voltage contractors, this is a structural shift. AI infrastructure is concentrating enormous, cabling-dense, security-heavy scopes into a handful of megasites — and with ten data centers rising on one campus, Shackelford County is a fresh market with a low voltage opportunity approaching $1 billion that did not exist two years ago.

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