OpenAI’s gigantic Texas data center lands $11.6 billion in funding to expand to eight buildings
OpenAI’s massive data center, currently under construction in Abilene, Texas, just locked in $11.6 billion in new funding, bringing total commitments to $15 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The eight-building site, which is being built by infrastructure startup Crusoe for OpenAI, will house up to 50,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips per building, and is expected to become the largest data center used by the company when the site opens next year.
The Abilene project marks the first major step in “Stargate,” OpenAI’s $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative announced in January, backed by SoftBank and Oracle. It also signals the ChatGPT maker’s push to reduce its dependence on Microsoft, its longtime exclusive cloud provider.
The data center “will be the biggest AI training facility in the world,” CEO Sam Altman recently posted on X.
The Abilene project marks the first major step in “Stargate,” OpenAI’s $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative announced in January, backed by SoftBank and Oracle. It also signals the ChatGPT maker’s push to reduce its dependence on Microsoft, its longtime exclusive cloud provider.
The data center “will be the biggest AI training facility in the world,” CEO Sam Altman recently posted on X.
