LORDSTOWN — The village has secured a major role in the nation’s artificial intelligence revolution. However, calling it the home of an AI data center is open to interpretation.

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank Group Corp. in a news release issued Wednesday said Lordstown is one of “five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform.”

The partners said Lordstown and a location in Milam County, Texas, are being developed through a SoftBank and OpenAI alliance. The three other sites are in Shackelford County, Texas; Dona Ana County, New Mexico, and an unnamed place in the Midwest.

Selected through a process launched in January, the partners reviewed more than 300 proposals from 30-plus states. The five facilities will join the flagship campus in

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