Openai Looks Across Us For Sites To Build Its Trump-backed Stargate Ai Data Centers

OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump.

The maker of ChatGPT put out a request for proposals for land, electricity, engineers and architects and began visiting locations in Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week.

Trump touted Stargate, a newly formed joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank , shortly after returning to the White House last month.

The partnership said it is investing 100 billion - and eventually up to 500 billion - to build large-scale data centers and the energy generation needed to further AI development. Trump called the project a "resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential" under his new administration, though the first project in Abilene, Texas, has been under construction for months.

Elon Musk, a Trump adviser and fierce rival of OpenAI who is in a legal fight with the company and its CEO Sam Altman, has publicly questioned the value of Stargate's investments.