Microsoft — Lordstown AI Campus (Stargate Phase 1)

The Lordstown AI Campus is a reported 600 MW planned AI data center project in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, described as part of the broader Stargate infrastructure buildout associated with Microsoft and OpenAI. Public reporting around the site remains early and incomplete, so the exact parcel, development timeline, and final tenant mix should be treated as provisional until permitting filings and operator confirmations become public.

The location logic is understandable even before full project documentation is available. Lordstown sits inside a heavy-industry corridor with transmission access, large industrial parcels, interstate connectivity, and a workforce shaped by automotive and manufacturing operations. The village is best known for the former GM Lordstown Assembly plant and the wider industrial land base that surrounded it, making the area a plausible candidate for very large power-hungry digital infrastructure if land control and utility interconnection can be secured.

If the 600 MW figure is realized, Lordstown would rank among the largest AI-oriented campus announcements in the Midwest. It would also reinforce Ohio's emergence as part of a wider inland AI infrastructure corridor competing with Virginia, Texas, and other high-growth markets for hyperscale and GPU-cluster investment. Readers comparing this site with other Ohio entries should treat Lordstown as a pipeline record rather than a verified live facility.

The record is therefore most useful as an indicator of market intent: it shows how promoters of the Stargate concept are mapping potential capacity into regions with available land, industrial legacy assets, and headline-scale power narratives. As more evidence appears, this page should be updated with utility filings, tax-abatement documents, construction milestones, power procurement detail, and clearer attribution of which entities are actually financing and operating the campus.

For adjacent Midwest buildout context, compare this pipeline record with other operator and geography views on AI Data Center Index, then use sibling property [Silicon Bench](https://siliconbench.radicchio.page) for hardware-focused context when evaluating how announced capacity may translate into actual AI compute availability.

**Note:** Source tracking for this entry still relies heavily on early secondary reporting. Treat the project as planned/provisional until primary documents or direct operator statements provide firmer confirmation.