OpenAI reveals Stargate AI facility in Texas, projects planned in five more states

OpenAI revealed plans Tuesday to build six large computer facilities across the country, adding to its current Texas location as part of a massive $500 billion spending plan that President Donald Trump highlighted earlier this ￰0￱ company behind ChatGPT is working with Oracle and Softbank through a partnership called Stargate to construct these new ￰1￱ more will go up in Texas, with additional locations planned for New Mexico, Ohio, and another Midwest state that hasn’t been named ￰2￱ biggest project sits in Abilene, Texas, where city leaders say the development is changing their old railroad ￰3￱ officials who toured the eight-building site said it’s already set to become the world’s largest computer cluster for artificial intelligence work once construction wraps ￰4￱ complex will house hundreds of thousands of specialized computer ￰5￱ Altman from OpenAI admitted that most people don’t think about what happens behind the scenes when they use ￰6￱ and Clay Magouyrk, Oracle’s new co-chief, talked about their efforts to limit environmental damage in this dry part of West Texas, where temperatures reached 97 degrees Tuesday.

“We’re burning gas to run this data center,” Altman said, though he noted that Stargate hopes to use different power sources as the project ￰7￱ Texas facility needs roughly 900 megawatts of electricity to run all eight buildings and their computer ￰8￱ building is already working, and a second that the executives visited Tuesday is almost ￰9￱ equipment rack holds 72 of Nvidia’s GB200 chips, which handle the most demanding artificial intelligence ￰10￱ building should contain about 60,000 of these ￰11￱ have mixed reactions to the OpenAI project Not all residents are pleased because of the facility’s water and power ￰12￱ city’s water reservoirs were about half-full this ￰13￱ must follow a twice-weekly outdoor watering schedule, alternating days based on whether their house numbers are odd or ￰14￱ cooling system needs one million gallons from the city water supplies for its initial ￰15￱ Ren, a University of California, Riverside professor who studies environmental effects of artificial intelligence, said the closed-loop cooling system shows developers care about local water ￰16￱ he noted these systems need more electricity, which means more indirect water use through power ￰17￱ residents first heard about Stargate when Trump announced it after returning to office in ￰18￱ planned for cryptocurrency mining, developers changed and expanded their plans for the artificial intelligence boom that ChatGPT ￰19￱ partnership said it was investing $100 billion initially, possibly reaching $500 billion, to build large data centers and power systems for AI ￰20￱ recently signed a deal to buy $300 billion worth of computing power from Oracle, a major gamble for the San Francisco company that began as a ￰21￱ and Oracle brought reporters and politicians, including Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, to tour the site Tuesday for the first ￰22￱ called Texas “ground zero for AI” because anyone building data centers wants “abundant, low-cost energy.” Of the five other Stargate projects announced Tuesday, Oracle will work with OpenAI on one in New Mexico’s Doña Ana County and another in Shackelford County, ￰23￱ company also plans one in the ￰24￱ has started construction on two more in Lordstown, Ohio, and Milam County, ￰25￱ projects help OpenAI reduce its dependence on Microsoft, which was previously its only computing ￰26￱ told reporters his company has been “severely limited for the value we can offer to people.” “ChatGPT is slow.

It’s not as smart as we’d like to ￰27￱ users can’t use it as much as they would like,” Altman said. “We have many other ideas and products we want to build.” Get $50 free to trade crypto when you sign up to Bybit now