OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears

AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.

The announcement made in a blog post on Tuesday now boasts that Oracle will furnish OpenAI with at least five gigawatts worth of capacity in total, enough for more than two million GPUs.

"This significantly advances our progress toward the commitment we announced at the White House in January to invest $500 billion into 10 gigawatts of AI infrastructure in the US over the next four years," the AI megalith wrote. "We now expect to exceed our initial commitment thanks to strong momentum with partners including Oracle and SoftBank."

That's, of course, assuming the check clears. Unfortunately, the startup stopped short of breaking down how exactly Stargate's backers are going to pay ...