Stargate Project
Kyle Wiggers (OpenAI, Hacker News):
OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, among others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
The joint venture, called the Stargate Project, will begin with a large data center project in Texas and eventually expand to other states. The companies expect to commit $100 billion to Stargate initially and pour up to $500 billion into the venture over the next four years.
They promise it will create “hundreds of thousands” of jobs and “secure American leadership in AI.”
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Microsoft is also involved in Stargate as a tech partner. So are Arm and Nvidia.
Previously:
- Putnam-AXIOM Variation
- OpenAI Failed to Deliver Opt-out Tool
- OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
- OpenAI and Ive
- Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Update (2025-02-25): M.G. Siegler:
Speaking of ‘Stargate’, one of the more curious aspects of that announcements was that it was, at least in part, old news. The project actually started as a joint venture between OpenAI and Microsoft before the latter figured out how to offload the cost to others – largely SoftBank and Oracle. And the Oracle aspect, the data center in Abilene, Texas, was already being built well before the announcement. At first, humorously, for Elon Musk and xAI. But then when he bailed on the project, OpenAI took over the capacity. Again, well ahead of the announcement at the White House. And even SoftBank’s big money announcement as a part of that deal wasn’t exactly new. Masa Son had been with the President well before he was even sworn in to announce his big spending ambitions.
But why announce something once when you can announce it twice and get twice the press coverage?
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Why burn that name on a project like this? When I read the headline, for just the briefest of moments I hoped this was about some sort of actual space breakthrough.
It’s actually kind of the opposite.
Just read that they managed a stable plasma loop for 1000 seconds in a fusion plant.
Put money into that kind of thing please.
@Kristoffer yeah but no actual Stargate!
Maybe this will help solve all of humanity's problems. Just like Bitcoin.
