2025-05-26 10:10
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2025-05-26 10:10
In the face of the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the demand for powerful data centers and the latest computing technologies are growing. Technology companies around the world invest billions of dollars to ensure adequate infrastructure for training and launching advanced AI models. Increasingly, partnerships and megaprojekty in this field include not only industry giants, but also whole countries.
Oracle will spend about $ 40 billion on high -performance NVIDIA computer chips to power the new, gigantic OPENAI data center in the USA, while technology companies race in the construction of a huge infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence models.
The location in Abilene in Texas was defined as the first American Stargate project – an undertaking of data centers worth $ 500 billion, run by OpenAI and Softbank. After completing next year, the facility will have 1.2 gigawat, which will make it one of the largest in the world.
Oracle focuses on the power of AI. 400,000 superchips and 15 billion to start
Oracle is to buy about 400,000 NVIDIA GB200 chips – the latest “Superchips” designed for training and operating AI systems – and rent their computing power OPENAI, according to people familiar with the case.
The landowners, Crusoe and the American investment company Blue Owl Capital, accumulated $ 15 billion in the form of debt and equity to finance the project in Abilene, which will cover eight buildings. Construction works began in June last year.
The data center is to be fully operational by mid -2026. Oracle agreed to rent an object for 15 years. Stargate, which was registered at the beginning of this year, has not yet invested in this project.
Musk, Amazon and Opeli are fighting for dominance in computing power
As reported by the Financial Times, JPMorgan, according to people familiar with the case, assured most of the debt financing under two loans with a total value of $ 9.6 billion, including one out of 7.1 billion announced this week. Crusoe and Blue Owl invested about $ 5 billion in cash separately.
After completing the scale of the project will be comparable to the plans of Elon Musk regarding the expansion of his “Colossus” data center in Memphis, Tennessee, which is to accommodate about 1 million Nvidia chips. Until now, most of this center has been based on earlier NVIDIA chips: H100 and H200, which are less efficient. Musk announced this week that the next phase of Colossus will be “the first gigawat superclaster for training AI.” Amazon is building a data center in northern Virginia, which will also exceed 1GW of power.
The Data Center in Abilene is a key step towards becoming Openai from Microsoft. Until now, the startup, valued at $ 300 billion, consisted only on the American software giant, and a large part of the almost 14-million Microsoft investment in OpenAI had the form of loans for a cloud cloud.
The split with Microsoft and great ambitions. Opeli is looking for new power sources
Opeli and Microsoft agreed to the end of the exclusive contract at the beginning of this year, after the startup began to frustrate that his demand for computing power significantly exceeded the possibilities of Microsoft's delivery. Both sides are negotiated on how long Microsoft will keep his license rights to the OpenAI models.
Stargate will play a key role in ensuring the future Openai computing power. This prestigious undertaking, presented as a gigantic infrastructure project supporting the development of the AI industry in the USA, plans to raise $ 100 billion for investments in data centers, and in the next four years this amount may increase to 500 billion.
From Silicon Valley to the Persian Gulf. The Stargate project exceeds the borders
As reported by the Financial Times Opeli and Softbank undertook to bring $ 18 billion to the Stargate project, which was announced in January by US President Donald Trump. Oracle and MGX, a property fund from Abu Dhabi, declared for another $ 7 billion.
These four entities will have shares in the project, with Softbank and OpenAI to be the main owners – informs another source. Stargate has not yet invested capital in any data center project.
Openai is also expanding the Stargate project outside the USA – it plans to build a huge data center in the United Arab Emirates, announced during the recent Trump's visit to the Persian Gulf. The AI USA-ZEA campus, which is to occupy 10 square miles in Abu Dhabi, built by the Emirac G42 company, is to have the power of 5 gigawatts-which corresponds to over 2 million of the latest GB200 chips produced by Nvidia.
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