OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it plans to build five new AI data centers across the United States with partners Oracle and SoftBank through its Stargate project. The new data centers will bring Stargate’s planned capacity to seven gigawatts. This is enough energy to power more than five million homes.
Three of the new sites are being developed with Oracle. They are located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and an undisclosed location in the Midwest. The other two sites are being developed with SoftBank, with one in Lordstown, Ohio and the other in Milam County, Texas.
The new Stargate AI data centers are part of OpenAI’s massive infrastructure buildout. The company is working to train and serve more powerful AI models. On Monday, OpenAI said it would receive a one hundred billion dollar investment from Nvidia. This investment will be used to buy the chipmaker’s AI processors and to build out even more AI data centers.