Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman's apparent fear of commitment.

This scuttlebutt comes courtesy of Bloomberg, which cites sources familiar with the matter who claim Oracle and OpenAI had planned to grow the Abilene, Texas, facility to as much as 2 gigawatts of capacity, up from the 1.2 gigawatt campus currently under development.

The cavitations responsible for derailing the plan were attributed to a combination of financing and OpenAI's inability to forecast demand effectively.

Now, Meta is reportedly in the running to lease the untapped and unbuilt capacity from the site's developer Crusoe after Nvidia stepped in to broker a deal.

According to Bloomberg, Nvidia put down a $150 million deposit on the future capacity before approaching Zuckercorp about maybe moving in together.

Naturally, El Reg reached ...