OpenAI mulls $500B Stargate expansion in India-based gigawatt-scale data center

OpenAI is reportedly exploring plans to build a large data center in India with a capacity of at least one ￰0￱ project will be part of the $500 billion Trump-backed Stargate AI ￰1￱ report indicated that OpenAI is seeking Indian local partners to build a site with at least one gigawatt ￰2￱ the meantime, the exact location and multiple details of the plan remain ￰3￱ to the Bloomberg report, if the plan is executed, the ChatGPT developer would join the current players investing heavily in the country, including Alphabet, Microsoft, and billionaire Mukesh ￰4￱ to potentially host a one-gigawatt Stargate data center The ChatGPT developer has already set up a local company in India and plans to open a new office in Delhi this ￰5￱ company is also building a local team in the ￰6￱ has not publicly commented on the report.

OpenAI’s potential project plan is part of the Trump Stargate AI initiative , which he introduced in ￰7￱ Trump administration aims to use the AI initiative plan, a private sector investment valued at an estimated $500 billion, to advance AI infrastructure ￰8￱ partners for the project included SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and ￰9￱ partners such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm have joined the initiative along the ￰10￱ is investing nearly $6 billion in India to build a one-gigawatt data ￰11￱ Industries is also reportedly working on India’s biggest data center ￰12￱ report revealed that if developed, OpenAI’s project would be nearly eight times larger than the current largest AI-ready data center in North ￰13￱ to projections, India is expected to have about 4,500 megawatts of data center capacity by 2030, with a total investment of around $25 billion.

OpenAI’s planned one gigawatt capacity would account for 22% of the ￰14￱ observers await Altman’s speech ahead of his visit to India Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, will visit India in September and potentially deliver a keynote speech on the data center ￰15￱ to the report, India stands to gain a competitive edge by combining its consumer base with an AI infrastructure required to sustain the next generation of AI ￰16￱ noted that India’s ChatGPT userbase has grown fourfold throughout the past year, prompting ChatGPT Go’s introduction last ￰17￱ Go is a low-cost subscription priced under $5 specifically designed for the Indian ￰18￱ subscription includes GPT-5 ChatGPT’s latest model, which allows for expanded image generation and chatbot ￰19￱ ChatGPT AI firm also committed to supporting India’s $1.2 billion ‘IndiaAI Mission’, which seeks to integrate AI into economic ￰20￱ company also launched the ‘OpenAI for Countries’ program earlier this year under the Stargate initiative to build in-country data centers in collaboration with ￰21￱ least ten projects are expected to be explored under the ￰22￱ timing of the AI data center plan comes amid trade disputes between the ￰23￱ ￰24￱ reported recently that Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Indian ￰25￱ ￰26￱ cited concerns over India’s purchase of Russian discounted ￰27￱ Narendra Modi condemned the new tariffs and vowed to protect India’s farmers and small ￰28￱ seen where it ￰29￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.