OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank on Sept. 23 announced five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform.
The combined capacity from these five new sites -- along with a flagship site in Abilene, Texas, and ongoing projects with CoreWeave -- brings Stargate to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over the next three years.
“This puts us on a clear path to securing the full $500 billion, 10-gigawatt commitment we announced in January by the end of 2025, ahead of schedule,” Open AI said.
In July, OpenAI and Oracle entered an agreement to develop up to 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate capacity. This represents a partnership that exceeds $300 billion between the two companies over the next five years.
The three new sites -- located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and a site in the Midwest, which is expected to be announced soon; combined with an additional potential expansion of 600 megawatts near the flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas—can deliver over 5.5 gigawatts of capacity.
The other two Stargate sites announced on Sept. 23 can scale to 1.5 gigawatts over the next 18 months.
These sites will be developed through a partnership by SoftBank and OpenAI that can scale to multiple gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
One site is located in Lordstown, Ohio, where SoftBank has broken ground on an advanced data center design which is on track to be operational next year.
The second site is located in Milam County, Texas, and will be developed in partnership with SB Energy, a SoftBank Group company, which is providing powered infrastructure for a fast-build data center site.
The five new sites were chosen through a rigorous nationwide process launched in January. OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank reviewed over 300 proposals from more than 30 states.
The Sept. 23 announcement marks the first set of selections, with additional U.S. sites to come “as we complete and surpass our initial commitment to invest $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure,” Open AI said.
The new Stargate sites being developed by Oracle will join the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, which is already up and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and continues to progress rapidly.
Oracle began delivering the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June. We have already started early training and inference workloads, using this new capacity to advance OpenAI’s next-generation research.
