Just over a year ago, Altman broke into the clay and sand of Abilene, Texas, to begin building the biggest data center in the world. The Stargate campus, when completed, would be about 60 acres larger than New York City’s Central Park. Construction of the campus’ first two buildings is scheduled to finish this summer.

OpenAI and Oracle still have to build this monster data center, which will be a costly endeavor, both in cash and in energy. They ar

The deal is part of Stargate, a $500 billion project launched by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank earlier this year.

OpenAI is scaling up its plans with Oracle. Meanwhile, questions remain about Softbank's involvement in the Stargate AI project.

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.