Aug 19 (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 ( DBRG/PJ ), 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 ( MSFT )

and Meta Platforms ( META ) are committing billions of dollars

to expand and create their data center facilities.

Vantage says the construction of the campus has begun, which

will be home to 10 data centers and support ultra-high-density

racks exceeding 250 kilowatts each. The first building is due in

the second half of next year.

Silver Lake was a founding investor in Vantage in 2010.

Vantage CEO Sureel Choksi joined the company from Silver Lake in

2013.

After exiting Vantage in 2017, Silver Lake said it was

invited back on a proprietary basis in 2023 to support capital

raising and co-lead a $9.2 billion equity financing with

DigitalBridge ( DBRG/PJ ) in 2024.