Stargate, a massive $500B joint venture between Microsoft-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) OpenAI, Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY)(OTCPK:SFTBF), revealed the inner workings of its first large-scale data center, located in Abilene, Texas.
The complex features eight buildings that will eventually house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s (NVDA) artificial intelligence chips. OpenAI and Oracle invited media and politicians to tour one of the buildings, which is already operational, according to a report by the Associated Press. It was filled with server racks housing Nvidia’s GB200 GPUs. The entire complex will require about 900 megawatts of power when it is complete.
Stargate eventually plans to build two more data centers in Texas, one in New Mexico, one in Ohio and another in a Midwest location.
“Texas is ground zero for AI,” said U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), according to the report.
“These data centers are designed to not use water,” said Oracle’s co-CEO Clay Magouyrk. “All of the data centers that we’re building (in) this part of Stargate are designed to not use water. The reason we do that is because it turns out that’s harmful for the environment, and this is a better solution.”