OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

The Stargate project, the OpenAI-led plan to cover the world with datacenters, has announced plans to construct five new bit barns in the US.

The $500 billion project involves OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, AI investor MGX, and a handful of other technology partners who share the ambition to build hyperscale datacenters to host AI workloads. Oracle has said it will provide the backend support, with Softbank supposedly taking "financial responsibility" for the project, according to the group’s January 2025 launch announcement.

The five new datacenter sites are in Shackelford County and Milam County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; and a mystery site located somewhere in America's Midwest. Together with Stargate’s existing site in Abilene, Texas, they'll bring Stargate’s combined compute capacity to seven gigawatts over the next three years, OpenAI says. The AI behemoth claims it's on track to have 10GW of ...