"The Stargate project, the OpenAI-led plan to cover the world with datacenters, has announced plans to construct five new bit barns in the US. The $500 billion project involves OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, AI investor MGX, and a handful of other technology partners who share the ambition to build hyperscale datacenters to host AI workloads. Oracle has said it will provide the backend support, with Softbank supposedly taking "financial responsibility" for the project, according to the group's January 2025 launch announcement."
"The five new datacenter sites are in Shackelford County and Milam County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; and a mystery site located somewhere in America's Midwest. Together with Stargate's existing site in Abilene, Texas, they'll bring Stargate's combined compute capacity to seven gigawatts over the next three years, OpenAI says. The AI behemoth claims it's on track to have 10GW of commitments secured by the end of this year."
""AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it. That compute is the key to ensuring everyone can benefit from AI and to unlocking future breakthroughs," OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman enthused in a Tuesday press release. "We're already making historic progress toward that goal through Stargate and moving quickly not just to meet its initial commitment, but to lay the foundation for what comes next," he added."
The Stargate project is a $500 billion consortium led by OpenAI with partners Oracle, Softbank, AI investor MGX, and other technology companies to build hyperscale datacenters hosting AI workloads. Five new US datacenter sites will be constructed in Shackelford County and Milam County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; and an unnamed Midwestern site, bringing total planned capacity to seven gigawatts alongside an existing Abilene, Texas site. The group has also announced a 230 megawatt facility in Norway and a complex in the UK's Northeast. The coalition projects over $400 billion in spending across three years and may exceed its $500 billion estimate.
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