Oracle and OpenAI expand Stargate project with 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, part of a $500 billion U.S. AI infrastructure investment creating over 100,000 jobs.

The latest agreement between OpenAI and Oracle will expand Stargate’s data center capacity, ultimately surpassing the halfway point of their goal.

OpenAI confirms Project Stargate is still on, and its first site, Stargate I, is already partly operational in Abilene, Texas.

OpenAI and Oracle still have to build this monster data center, which will be a costly endeavor, both in cash and in energy. They ar

The deal is part of Stargate, a $500 billion project launched by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank earlier this year.

OpenAI's Sam Altman cautions that AI voice cloning poses a fraud threat to financial institutions, echoing cybersecurity experts' concerns about evolving AI issues.

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.