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OpenAI announces five new Stargate sites, aims for adding 1 GW per week

OpenAI announces five new Stargate data centers, but Altman says this is only the beginning. — 10 GW is a significant build, but is only the beginning for OpenAI’s ambitions. (Picture: Adobe)

The Stargate program is on track to reach its full 10-gigawatt capacity by the end of 2025, the company says.

The five new data centers are all located in the USA; in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio and at an undisclosed site in the Midwest.

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Nvidia and OpenAI reach «strategic partnership» worth $100 billion

Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI, to be returned in the form of chip purchases. — The deal will see Nvidia become OpenAI’s «preferred» partner for chips. (Picture: Adobe)

Nvidia has made a deal to invest the money in ten gigawatts of compute capacity for OpenAI, and the first gigawatt data center should be coming online in the second half of 2026.

The money will be disbursed in stages and then be «returned» from OpenAI in the form of 4-5 million next-gen gpu purchases by the AI lab.

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Report: OpenAI signed $300 billion cloud computing deal with Oracle

OpenAI is revealed as one of the largest Oracle customers with outstanding orders of some $300 billion. — The 4.5 GW data center run by Oracle in Abilene, Texas is at the heart of the deal. (Picture: OpenAI)

In what could be one of the largest data center deals ever, OpenAI is identified by The Wall Street Journal as a significant contributor to Oracle’s recent jump in new orders.

The cloud computing giant announced on Tuesday a jump of some 359% in committed deals for $455 billion in outstanding orders — surprising the market and sending its stock up 35.95% on Wednesday, CNBC reports.

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OpenAI set to build India data center of «at least» one gigawatt

The monetary number has not been set, but the data center should consume "at least" 1 gigawatt of energy. — Months after Google announced data centers in India, OpenAI is doing the same. (Picture: Adobe)

After first saying they would open India offices in August, then launching a five dollar subscription in the country — they are now said to be scouting partners for a huge data center, according to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources.

India is the second largest market for ChatGPT in the world, after the USA, and this marks their first foray into data centers in the country, which usually shuns products not produced locally.

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OpenAI unveils Stargate Norway — its first data center in Europe

Norway has cheap and abundant hydropower, tempting Stargate to build there. — For its first European data center, OpenAI chose Norway for its climate and cheap hydropower. (Picture: Adobe)

The facility in Narvik, Northern Norway was selected for its cool climate and abundant clean energy, and will host 100,000 Nvidia chips with a total power consumption of 230 MW.

It will run mostly ChatGPT loads, but «surplus capacity» will be made available to local and North European developers, and government programs, which is in high demand.

ChatGPT use in Norway has quadrupled in the past year, OpenAI says in its statement on the project, and there are thousands of developers on the platform.

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Stargate was not dead: OpenAI announces 4.5 GW data center in Texas

The first Stargate data center is already partly up and running. — What problems? Parts of the Stargate Abilene data center are already starting to come online. (Picture: OpenAI)

Following reports over the weekend that the Stargate project, aiming to invest $500 billion dollars in 10 GW of datacenter capacity, was in trouble over crucial terms like where to put them, OpenAI has responded:

Their new 4.5 GW data center in Abilene, Texas, built in cooperation with Oracle, is indeed part of the Stargate project, they say. As a reply to the report, they are showing operations are already starting.

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