An additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity will be developed by OpenAI and Oracle, extending their partnership that has committed hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment to maintain the United States’ lead in the global artificial intelligence race.
The ChatGPT manufacturer did not reveal the locations and financial information for the additional facilities in Tuesday’s announcement.
The action expands on the Stargate effort, a $500 billion, 10-gigawatt scheme that also involves SoftBank Group, a Japanese technology investor, and establishing its first artificial intelligence data center in Abilene, Texas.
To run generative AI services like ChatGPT and Copilot, which require enormous amounts of processing power, technology companies like OpenAI and its backer, Microsoft, are investing billions of dollars in data centers.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who debuted Stargate at the White House in January, has made the emerging technology a primary priority due to China’s efforts to catch up and the expanding usage of AI in delicate industries like the military.
In a blog post, OpenAI stated that the partnership now anticipates surpassing its original promise and that the new data centers will increase Stargate’s total capacity under development to over 5 gigawatts, which will utilize more than 2 million processors.
The venture’s capacity to raise the necessary funds, including $100 billion for immediate deployment, has been questioned by analysts.
Elon Musk, the owner of xAI, dismissed the group in January, claiming that “they don’t have the money.”
In January, it was reported that SoftBank and OpenAI would each contribute $19 billion to finance the Stargate project.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Stargate has set a more modest objective of constructing a small data center by the end of 2025, most likely in Ohio, following a period of conflict between two businesses.
