"Sam Altman stood outside Building 2 at OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank's flagship Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas. He - along with the cluster of journalists peppering him with questions - looked small against the backdrop of the sprawling 800-acre site, swarming with thousands of construction workers and dotted with spools of fiber cable, steel beams, water pipes, and heavy machinery."
"They announced an expansion of the Abilene site, plus plans to build five massive new data center complexes across the U.S. over the next several years. Altogether, the initiative represents hundreds of billions of dollars in investment - a project of mind-boggling scale. In Abilene alone, a crew of 6,400 workers has already flattened hills by moving mountains of soil and laid enough fiber optic cable to wrap the Earth 16 times."
OpenAI is expanding its Stargate infrastructure in Abilene, Texas, on an 800-acre site undergoing intense construction with thousands of workers and extensive fiber deployment. The program includes an Abilene expansion and plans for five additional massive data-center complexes across the United States, representing hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Construction activity in Abilene has involved moving large volumes of earth and laying fiber optic cable at scale. OpenAI leaders emphasize urgent need to scale compute capacity, asserting that even these massive investments may still fall short of demand for flagship AI services such as ChatGPT.
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