The Stargate project, the OpenAI-led plan to cover the world with datacenters, has announced plans to construct five new bit barns in the US.

The $500 billion project involves OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, AI investor MGX, and a handful of other technology partners who share the ambition to build hyperscale datacenters to host AI workloads. Oracle has said it will provide the backend support , with Softbank supposedly taking "financial responsibility" for the project, according to the group’s January 2025 launch announcement .

The five new datacenter sites are in Shackelford County and Milam County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; and a mystery site located somewhere in America's Midwest. Together with Stargate’s existing site in Abilene, Texas, they'll bring Stargate’s

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