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.
Oracle and OpenAI have inked an agreement to further develop the Stargate project as part of a broader pledge to expand Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The two companies made the announcement on Tuesday, promising an additional 4.5 gigawatts of Stargate data center capacity, a move expected to create over 100,000 jobs across operations, construction, and indirect roles such as manufacturing and local services.
This is almost a year to the day when Sam Altman sort of planted a flag on democratic AI versus autocratic AI," OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane told Fox News Digital. "There are a lot of anniversaries overlapping. Six months to almost the day since we announced the Stargate concept with President Trump on the first full day of his presidency, along with Oracle and Stargate. We’re now in a place where we have a concrete path forward," he later added.
It also marks a major milestone for Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform and long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone," the company continued. At the Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas, parts of the facility are now up and running. Oracle began delivering the first Nvidia GB200 racks in June, and OpenAI says it has begun running early training and inference workloads with this new capacity to push its "next-generation frontier research.
OpenAI also highlighted White House leadership as a pivotal force in driving innovation, job growth, and national competitiveness around AI infrastructure. "Over the past six months, growing interest in Stargate has helped shape and expand our vision for this effort. Stargate is OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform, encompassing ongoing data center partnerships with Oracle, SoftBank, and CoreWeave, and international investments in U.S. infrastructure through OpenAI for Countries.
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