{"id":213175,"date":"2025-05-03T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-worlds-largest-data-center-rises-in-texas"},"modified":"2025-05-03T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:06:58","slug":"the-worlds-largest-data-center-rises-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-worlds-largest-data-center-rises-in-texas","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUiI03X6DQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenvoss.com\/\">Stephen Voss<\/a> has been working on a project about data centers and recently travelled to Abilene, Texas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenvoss.com\/blog\/2025\/5\/1\/project-stargate-drone-video\">document the first data center built<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stargate_LLC\">Stargate Project<\/a>. When completed, it will be the largest data center in the world. Here\u2019s a short drone video he took of the project:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe place was mesmerizing and deeply unsettling,\u201d Voss told me over email. \u201cWhen finished, it\u2019ll have the power demands of a mid-sized city and is on a piece of land that\u2019s the size of Central Park.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Stephen Voss has been working on a project about data centers and recently travelled to Abilene, Texas to document the first data center built as part of the Stargate Project. When completed, it will be the largest data center in the world. Here\u2019s a short drone video he took of the project: \u201cThe place [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}