(Reuters) -Vantage Data Centers said on Tuesday it would spend more than $25 billion to build a 1,200-acre data center campus in Shackelford County, Texas, as surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure fuels mega-scale developments.

Backed by private equity firm Silver Lake and asset manager DigitalBridge, Vantage said the 1.4-gigawatt campus, dubbed “Frontier”, is the largest in its global portfolio.

Chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini need massive compute, prompting demand for purpose-built data centers. These facilities are costly as they require cutting-edge chips, servers, adequate power and cooling solutions.

Companies including Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms are committing billions of dollars to expand and create their data center faciliti

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