OpenAI has unveiled an ambitious plan to dramatically expand its computing power by building five new large-scale data centers across the United States in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank. These sites will form the backbone of the company’s growing AI infrastructure, supporting future models that demand massive processing capacity. The new facilities are expected to add up to 7 gigawatts of total capacity, making them among the most powerful AI data centers in the world.
Locations include Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and additional Midwest regions chosen for their strong energy and connectivity resources. Oracle will build three of the sites, while SoftBank will co-develop the remaining two. The expansion also includes a significant upgrade to the existing Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, where capacity will increase by more than 600 megawatts.
OpenAI expects this project to create tens of thousands of jobs and strengthen the supply of high-performance computing for AI training and deployment. With a projected budget in the hundreds of billions of dollars, the plan highlights how critical large-scale infrastructure has become to the race for next-generation artificial intelligence.
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