OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites through the Stargate partnership, OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform.
“Oracle’s reliable, scalable, and secure AI infrastructure is helping OpenAI rapidly scale its business. To meet this enormous demand, we continue to expand OCI’s footprint at an unrivaled pace to deliver the most performant and cost-effective AI training and inferencing,” said Clay Magouyrk, CEO of Oracle.
The combined capacity from these five new sites—along with the flagship site in Abilene, Texas, and ongoing projects with CoreWeave—brings Stargate to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over the next three years.
In July, OpenAI and Oracle entered an agreement to develop up to 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate capacity. This represents a partnership that exceeds $300 billion between the two companies over the next five years.
The three new sites—located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and a site in the Midwest, which will be announced soon; combined with an additional potential expansion of 600 megawatts near the flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas—can deliver over 5.5 gigawatts of capacity.
Together, these sites are expected to create over 25,000 onsite jobs, and tens of thousands of additional jobs across the U.S., according to the companies.
The other two Stargate sites can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months. These sites will be developed through a partnership by SoftBank and OpenAI that can scale to multiple gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
One site is located in Lordstown, Ohio, where SoftBank has broken ground on an advanced data center design which is on track to be operational next year.
The second site is in Milam County, Texas, and will be developed in partnership with SB Energy, a SoftBank Group company, which is providing powered infrastructure for a fast-build data center site. Together, these sites represent an important step in enabling faster deployment, greater scalability, and improved cost efficiency—making high-performance compute more widely accessible, according to the vendors.
The five new sites were chosen through a rigorous nationwide process launched in January.
The new Stargate sites being developed by Oracle will join the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, which is already up and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and continues to progress rapidly. Oracle began delivering the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June.
“AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it. That compute is the key to ensuring everyone can benefit from AI and to unlocking future breakthroughs. We’re already making historic progress toward that goal through Stargate and moving quickly not just to meet its initial commitment, but to lay the foundation for what comes next,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
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