OpenAI has agreed to rent computing power from Oracle for use in US data centres as part of the ChatGPT developers’ Stargate joint venture project.
Bloomberg reported OpenAI plans to rent data centre capacity from Oracle totalling roughly 4.5 gigawatts. The news site stated a gigawatt is like the capacity output of a single nuclear reactor and enough electricity for roughly 750,000 homes.
Its unnamed sources explained Oracle will build multiple data centres across the US with its partners to meet the additional demand from OpenAI.
Oracle initially focused on a building a data centre site for OpenAI in the US state of Texas, but Bloomberg explained new sites across Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Wyoming are also under consideration. The site in Texas will expand from a current capacity of 1.2 gigawatts to about 2 gigawatts, Bloomberg reported.
Open AI is also interested in additional data centre sites in New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. While the new sites will be part of the Stargate project, the news agency noted details of the plan are fluid.
Oracle recently stated in a regulatory filing it signed a cloud deal worth $30 billion in annual revenue, with revenue expected to start in fiscal year 2028. The Stargate project with OpenAI will make up part of the $30 billion contract, Bloomberg reported.
In May, OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank Group, Nvidia, and Cisco teamed to build a Stargate AI campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking the first international deployment of the joint venture. OpenAI and SoftBank Group reportedly want to expand the presence of their $500 billion US project to build out AI infrastructure to additional countries such as the UK, Germany and France.
Source: Mobile World Live
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