The expansion brings the companies significantly closer to their goal of investing US$500 billion in domestic data centres and AI infrastructure over the next four years — a pledge made by their top executives in the first days after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The added facilities are also poised to provide substantially more computing capacity to support OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, which is now used by 700 million people weekly.
OpenAI plans to invest roughly US$400 billion to develop five new US data centre sites in partnership with Oracle Corp and SoftBank Group Corp, marking the biggest push yet to fulfill an earlier pledge to spend a half-trillion dollars on artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country.
The new locations, spread across Texas, New Mexico and Ohio, will eventually have a capacity of 7 gigawatts of power, or as much as some cities, the companies said Tuesday. The plans were announced by executives from the three tech firms at a press conference in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI and Oracle have for months been developing the first data centre branded as part of Stargate, the joint AI infrastructure initiative.
