OpenAI Expands Stargate With Five New Data Centers Across the US

OpenAI is building five more data centers in the United States as part of the Stargate project. These will be located in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and an unspecified site in the Midwest, bringing the project’s total capacity to nearly 7 GW.

Announced by President Donald Trump in January, Stargate is a $500 billion generative AI infrastructure venture, led by OpenAI, Oracle, Japanese telecoms giant SoftBank, and MGX, an investment firm based in the United Arab Emirates. OpenAI intends to operate the data centers, while Oracle provides server infrastructure and leasing, SoftBank handles capital investment, and Nvidia supplies many of the chips.

The plan is for Stargate to reach an overall capacity of 10 GW by the end of 2028, and OpenAI says that the five data centers put the project ahead of schedule. Three of them are being developed ...