OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand

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OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate project has seven US sites under construction totaling over 9 GW, with 0.3 GW already operational in Abilene, Texas.

OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term
OpenAI has abandoned building first-party Stargate data centers in favor of leasing compute from third parties like Oracle and Microsoft.
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OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation from SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon to scale AI infrastructure and products.
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AI infrastructure deals lack standardized verification, making headline numbers appear as binding commitments when they are actually contingent options.
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Rural areas in the southern United States are expected to host the most planned data centers, despite their noise and power demands.
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Two incidents in 2024 and 2025 saw clusters of Virginia data centers simultaneously switch to backup power, forcing grid operators into emergency balancing actions.
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