OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it plans to build five new AI data centres across the United States, in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank, through its Stargate project. The latest data centres will bring Stargate’s planned capacity to seven gigawatts — enough energy to power more than five million homes.
Three of the new sites are being developed with Oracle. They’re located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and an undisclosed location in the Midwest. The other two sites are being developed in collaboration with SoftBank, located in Lordstown, Ohio, and Milam County, Texas.
The new Stargate AI data centres are part of OpenAI’s massive infrastructure buildout, as the company works to train and serve more powerful AI models. On Monday, OpenAI said it would receive a $100 billion investment from Nvidia to buy the chipmaker’s AI processors and build out even more AI data centres.
