Openai said Thursday that the company is considering building data center campuses in 16 states that have shown “real interest” in projects linked to President Donald Trump’s Stargate plan.
In a call with reporters, Openai officials said they had sent a proposal request (RFP) to the state a week ago.
“A project of this scale represents an opportunity to re-kill parts of the country, but it represents how American dreams can help reinvigorate where they go in this age of intelligence. “call.
Shortly after taking office last month, President Trump introduced Stargate, a joint venture between Openai, Oracle and Softbank, to strengthen the American artificial intelligence infrastructure. Key early technology partners include Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Semiconductor Company ARM. They said they would invest $100 billion over the next four years and invest up to $500 billion.
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Construction of a data center in Abilene, Texas is currently underway. According to the presentation, in the coming months, Openai will begin to announce additional construction sites “on a rolling basis.” Each campus is designed to support power of more than about 1 gigawatt.
Openai aims to build a total of 5-10 data center campuses, but the executives say that the number could rise or fall depending on the power provided by each campus.
The company also said it hopes each data center campus will generate thousands of jobs. This includes the roles of construction and operation. However, recent reports show that Stargate’s first data center in Abilene could lead to just 57 jobs.
Keith Hayd, director of infrastructure strategy and deployment, when Open Eye Executives were asked how much electricity and water the data center would consume and how many workers they would employ, the company teamed up with utilities. I said there are some sites that I’m trying to help develop other power generation methods.
Heyde also said the company is considering a “light water production design.” Lehane refused to provide details about water use.
Large data centers have been causing controversy in recent years about incredible environmental costs. According to Energy.gov, the facility consumes 50 times more energy per square foot than an average commercial office building, and is responsible for about 2% of the US electricity usage.
In 2022, Google said the average Google data center last year consumed around 450,000 gallons of water per day for server cooling. At least one data center it built could use 1 million gallons of water per day, time reported.
However, the pressure to advance AI in the US is being picked up due to the rapid pace of China’s development.
Deepseek, a Chinese AI startup lab, saw the app surge to the top of Apple’s App Store rankings after its debut, Roile the US market earlier last week, and its powerful model has been a number of US competitors They reported that they were trained in a fraction of the time.
Openai CEO Sam Altman publicly praised Deepseek’s model at last week’s event, calling it “a clear, great model.”
“This reminds us of the level of competition and the need for democratic AL to win,” Altman said at the event, pointing to “the level of interest in reasoning, the level of interest in open source.” I added it.
Lehaan said everything adds urgency to the efforts in the US.
“There are actually two countries in this world where we can build AI on a large scale right now,” Lehane said Thursday. “One is CCP-led China and the other is the US, so that’s like the context in which we operate. CCP.”
He said the report surrounding Deepseek “It really made it clear that this is a very realistic competition and that there are no big interests. Anyone who has won this competition will have the world going forward. It’s going to really shape what looks like.”
Watch: Deepseek will continue to grow until the end of the year
