The consortium combines capital (SoftBank, MGX, Oracle), a model operator (OpenAI) and technology providers (incl. NVIDIA, Oracle, Arm, Microsoft) to finance and build AI data-center campuses together with power. The infrastructure is to be filled with accelerators (GPUs) and used for OpenAI workloads and more broadly. The project proceeds in phases — from initial campuses (e.g. in Texas) toward a target network of US facilities.
Training and deploying frontier AI models requires compute and power beyond existing resources. Stargate aims to address this shortage via coordinated, large-scale infrastructure buildout.
OpenAI (operator), SoftBank and MGX (capital), Oracle (cloud/data center).
Large-scale compute facilities (first ones e.g. in Texas).
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Dedicated power for AI data centers.
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The stated amount and pace may not be fully realized.
Power demand may exceed local grid capacity.
The scale requires huge, timely accelerator supply.
January 21, 2025 — OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle announce the up-to-$500B program.
Construction begins (e.g. Abilene, Texas) and the partner set expands.
Stargate campuses are filled with GPU accelerators for training/inference.
