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Business Fortune
04 Febuary, 2025
OpenAI's $500 billion AI data center project, Stargate, has revealed ambitions to grow outside of Abilene, Texas.
A $100 billion initial investment in generative AI data center complexes is planned under the program, which was revealed last month. Over the next four years, an additional $400 billion will be invested. Since last year, the first data center location has been being developed at a Crusoe site on the Lancium complex, which Oracle has fully leased for OpenAI.
However, the precise quantity and timetable are still unknown, even if speculations indicate that 10–20 data centers will be constructed in Abilene. OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar wrote on LinkedIn that AI is changing the world and that it will take bold, long-term investment to build the infrastructure to power it. For this reason, the company and its partners launched Stargate, a $500 billion initiative to boost the American tech industry and increase the computing capacity required to realize AI's full potential.
Site inspections are planned for next week, she continued, adding the IT behemoth is also considering possible locations in Wisconsin, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. "Top firms to design and build the facilities that will define the future of AI compute" is another request for proposals that the corporation has made, it noted.