Expand Openai, Oracle and Softbank Stargate with five new artificial intelligence centers

This event was a roll of a kind of victory, as the CEO of the new SAM Altman and Oracle Co-COO Clay Magouryk responded against critics who questioned the advance of the prominent and ambitious “Stargate” infrastructure project.

On Tuesday’s event, the two companies, which were joined by the Japanese Softbank, announced a big step forward in favor of Stargate, as it promotes the expansion of Abilene, as well as plans to build five huge complexes and a new data center in the United States over the next few years. In all, the initiative calls for hundreds of billions of dollars from investing in a project on a baffling scale. In Abeleen, a crew of 6400 workers has already transferred huge amounts of soil to flattens the hills, and put the optical fiber cable to wrap the ground 16 times.

“We cannot fail the need to assemble the infrastructure together to achieve this revolution,” Altman of Openai said during questions and answers with reporters. He said: “What I saw today is like a small part of what this site will be in the end, and this site is just a small part or building, and all of this will remain enough to serve until the demand for Chatgpt.”

Buildout is witnessing the tall expectations surrounding AI, such as technology companies such as Openai, alphabetand MicrosoftAnd Dead The race to put the infrastructure needed to run the latest large language models. In July, the CEO of META Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars Building a network of data centers With names like Prometheus and Hyperion for the creation of “SuperIntelligence”.

Abilene, in addition to the newly announced data centers, is part of the Stargate project, a joint initiative of semi -trillion dollars revealed by Openai in January that aims to create the backbone of the country to train artificial intelligence models at the country level. Stargate was described as a public and private partnership with the Trump administration – part of an attempt to maintain the infrastructure of artificial intelligence in the United States and push previous projects. Organizational obstacles.

Among the guests and speakers at the Apillan event on Tuesday, Sinator Texas Ted Cruz, member of Congress Judy Armington, and local domestic figures, including the mayor of Apillain and even the province’s judge. Each of them emphasized the attractiveness of Texas as a center of infrastructure for Amnesty International. “Sam, Clay, Welcome to Silicon Prime,” said Arangton on stage, referring to Openai and Oracle executives.

In all, the new five Stargate projects – in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and in the Middle West location that has not been revealed – will bring the current Stargate pipeline to nearly 7 GB and more than $ 400 billion of investment over the next three years. In the world of data center, “Gigawatts” is short of the amount of electricity that the campus can draw – and thus the amount of artificial intelligence account that you can provide. For example, the Gigawatt 1 facility requires adequate sub -stations, cooling, and transporting them to keep the power demand nearly a million homes.

It is measured on the conditions designed for marriage, Gigawatt is enough for the power of millions of homes. Most high cloud universities are at the forefront of a few hundred megawatts, but Microsoft and Meta recently unveiled multiple gagoat projects in Wisconsin and Louisiana.

Openai and its partners move faster and larger, and promised to reach a goal of 10 GB of $ 500 billion by the end of 2025-in the schedule. Oracle noted that the campus in Abelene, Texas, is already working on the Oracle Cloud (OCI) infrastructure, and continues to advance quickly, and it is on the right track to supply Openai with the “largest supercar in the world” when it is completely built.

On Tuesday’s advertisement included an expansion in Abyen on another site that will withdraw 600 megawatts – which could operate approximately 450,000-600,000 homes of electricity demand. New projects – in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and in the Middle West site that has not been revealed – will reach the current Stargate pipeline to nearly 7 GB and more than $ 400 billion of investment over the next three years. This type of capacity, which can operate millions of homes, is measured in energy designed terms: the typical cloud campus runs a few hundred megawatts, while both Microsoft and Meta have announced all multi -gigaial projects in Wisconsin and Louisiana.

Three of the new sites – in the province of Shakelford, Texas; Donna Anna Province, New Mexico; An unknown location will be built from the Middle West – with Oracle, which expands the July deal to develop up to 4.5 GB of capabilities at a value of more than $ 300 billion over a period of five years. Two other-in Lardstown, Ohio, Melam, Texas-with SoftBank, which promised “fast buildings” facilities that could quickly expand to many Gigawatts. The five sites of the site selection competition appeared in January, which attracted more than 300 proposals from 30 states, confirming how strong local governments have overcome the Stargate project.

But Stargit’s expansion is sure to attract criticism on multiple fronts. In Apiline and other societies that host Amnesty International Data Data centers, residents and activists worry about bites: billions of tax cuts, the risk of generation that reduces local air quality, and the possibility that permanent jobs are much lower than indicating the main headlines. Meanwhile, national energy analysts warn that the campus of multi -gray universities can pressure fragile energy networks and close huge new demands for water fuel and fossil fuel at a time when facilities are already struggling to keep pace with the growth of artificial intelligence.

For example, the site in Donna Anna, New Mexico, has received mixed reactions, as opponents raised concerns about the use and pollution of water, on the pretext that these issues outweigh the economic benefits. According to the province’s offer, the project will attend 800 permanent jobs and 2500 jobs based on three years.

Yesterday, NVIDIA announced a letter of intent with Openai to deploy GPU systems that are able to draw up to 10 GB of electricity-equivalent demand from 7 to 10 million homes-supposed to $ 100 billion in investment.

Altman argued at Press Q&A that the most important part of the NVIDIA Declaration was not just new sites but the financing model behind them. Instead of paying billions for the chips provided, Openai will be able to spread these costs over time as revenue standards.

He said: “We can love salaries as we go, as is what is in cloud services.” “The chips are a percentage percentage of Capex, and it is difficult for us to pay for that in the foreground, because our revenues come during the many months that customers run between these chips. This really helps such projects.”

But when it comes to the energy requirements in Openai, Senator Ted Cruz has threw risks to both geopolitical and local terms. “The number one message: America will beat China in the race for artificial intelligence,” said. The message number two? “Texas is zero for artificial intelligence,” he added. “What do you want when you build artificial intelligence centers?