Just over a year ago, Altman broke into the clay and sand of Abilene, Texas, to begin building the biggest data center in the world. The Stargate campus, when completed, would be about 60 acres larger than New York City’s Central Park. Construction of the campus’ first two buildings is scheduled to finish this summer.

Oracle and OpenAI expand Stargate project with 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, part of a $500 billion U.S. AI infrastructure investment creating over 100,000 jobs.

OpenAI has today confirmed the 4.5GW deal for Stargate data center capacity in the US, spread across the country. According to the companies, along with the Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas, OpenAI and Oracle will now have more than 5GW of data center capacity under development.

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.

According to new Wall Street Journal reporting though, OpenAI and SoftBank have disagreed over data center locations and the use of SB Energy sites (a SoftBank-backed energy firm). OpenAI has also made its own progress separate from the Project, including striking up a $30 billion deal with Oracle for 4.5 gigawatts of capacity.

Oracle's executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, is no stranger to property tax appeals himself. In 2008, he successfully lobbied San Mateo County to lower the value of his property, a 23-acre site with an 8,000-square-foot residence inspired by the country estate of a Japanese emperor. The county awarded him a $3 million tax break.

Stargate, a multi-billion-dollar effort by ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to supercharge the U.S.' AI ambitions is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of the year,

On Tuesday, major artificial intelligence (AI) chip manufacturers, including Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM),

OpenAI partners with Oracle to boost Stargate AI capacity to 5 GW, as Elon Musk targets 50 million H100-scale units for xAI over the next five years.