{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-21-stargate-project/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-21-stargate-project/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2025-01-21-stargate-project","date":"2025-01-21","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced","deck":null,"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.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Announcing The Stargate Project (OpenAI)","url":"https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Announcing The Stargate Project (SoftBank)","url":"https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250122","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"group.softbank"},{"n":3,"title":"OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites (OpenAI)","url":"https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"}],"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["OpenAI","SoftBank","Oracle","MGX"],"title":"Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced","summary":"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.","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["compute","datacenter","investment","usa"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nA day after the presidential inauguration, OpenAI and partners launched a joint venture to build gigawatt-scale datacenters.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nSymbolized the shift to industrial-scale AI compute build-out, measured in gigawatts and hundreds of billions of dollars.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2025-09-22-nvidia-openai-partnership","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-22-nvidia-openai-partnership/","date":"2025-09-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA and OpenAI announce 10-gigawatt partnership with up to $100B investment","deck":null,"takeaway":"Illustrated the circular financing and energy-scale ambitions of the 2025 AI build-out, fueling 'AI bubble' debates.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA","OpenAI"]}],"people":[{"id":"donald-trump","name":"Donald Trump","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/donald-trump/"},{"id":"masayoshi-son","name":"Masayoshi Son","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/masayoshi-son/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/stargate-500-billion-ai"}