Stargate Project advances with 4.5GW partnership with Oracle

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and OpenAI, backed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), have announced a partnership to build 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the U.S., pushing total capacity under development to over 5GW.

“Together with our Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas, this additional partnership with Oracle will bring us to over 5 gigawatts of Stargate AI data center capacity under development, which will run over 2 million chips,” OpenAI said.

OpenAI is developing a massive data center in Abilene, Texas, and is eyeing potential sites in Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Construction of Stargate I in Abilene is well underway, with sections of the facility already operational. Oracle started delivering Nvidia GB200 racks last month, and early training and inference workloads are now running, supporting OpenAI’s next-gen frontier research.

The Stargate Project was officially announced in January at the White House by U.S. President Donald Trump. SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY) and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), along with Arm Holdings (ARM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Nvidia (NVDA) were also named key partners. The four-year, $500B project is intended to significantly build out the artificial intelligence infrastructure in the U.S.

In May, Oracle was also named as a key partner, along with Nvidia, OpenAI, Cisco Systems (CSCO) and G42 to build Stargate UAE in the United Arab Emirates.