OpenAI is planning to build five new data centers in the United States as part of the Stargate initiative, the company announced on Tuesday. The sites, which are being developed in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank , bring Stargate’s current planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—roughly the same amount of power as seven large-scale nuclear reactors .

“AI is different from the internet in a lot of ways, but one of them is just how much infrastructure it takes,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a press briefing in Abilene, Texas on Tuesday. He argued that the US “cannot fall behind on this” and the "innovative spirit” of Texas provides a model for how to scale “bigger, faster, cheaper, better.”

Three of the new sites, in Shackelford County, Texas, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, a

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