Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced
Confirmed
Importance: major (4 of 5)The takeaway
OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announced the Stargate Project at the White House, pledging to invest $500B over four years in US AI infrastructure for OpenAI, with $100B deployed immediately.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- Major (4 of 5)
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Announced 21 January 2025 with President Trump
- Target: $500B over four years; $100B initially
- SoftBank holds financial responsibility, OpenAI operational responsibility; Masayoshi Son as chairman
- Technology partners include Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Oracle
- First site in Abilene, Texas; five more US sites announced in September 2025
What happened
A day after the presidential inauguration, OpenAI and partners launched a joint venture to build gigawatt-scale datacenters.
Why it matters
Symbolized the shift to industrial-scale AI compute build-out, measured in gigawatts and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Sources
3 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 3 primary
Primary
- Announcing The Stargate Project (OpenAI)openai.com, official
- Announcing The Stargate Project (SoftBank)group.softbank, official
- OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites (OpenAI)openai.com, official
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