"In Abilene, Texas-in the heart of what locals call the Big Country, long defined by ranching and farming and now dotted with wind turbines-OpenAI and Oracle staged a carefully crafted media showcase on Tuesday, ushering reporters through an 800-acre data center complex packed with tens of thousands of state-of-the-art Nvidia GPUs."
"At Tuesday's event, the two companies, joined by Japan's SoftBank, announced a big step forward for Stargate, touting an expansion of the Abilene site, as well as plans to build five massive, new data center complexes across the U.S. over the next several years."
"We cannot fall behind in the need to put the infrastructure together to make this revolution happen,"
"What you saw today is just like a small fraction of what this site will eventually be, and this site is just a small fraction or building, and all of that will still not be enough to serve even the demand of ChatGPT,"
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced expansion of a large AI infrastructure project centered in Abilene, Texas, featuring an 800-acre data center filled with tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The initiative plans five additional major U.S. data center complexes and envisions hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Construction in Abilene has involved 6,400 workers reshaping terrain and laying fiber optic cable sufficient to circle the Earth 16 times. The buildout reflects expectations that existing compute capacity will be insufficient to meet demand from large language models such as ChatGPT and mirrors similar plans by other major tech firms.
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