Operai is going through the United States so that the sites build a network of mass knowledge centers to obtain their synthetic intelligence technology, which extends beyond a flagship location in Texas and in 16 states to increase the assignment of Stargate defended through the President Donald Trump.
The Chatgpt manufacturer submitted a request for proposals for land, electricity, engineers and architects and began stopping in Put in Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week.
Trump praised Stargate, a recently formed joint company between Openai, Oracle and Softbank, in a while after returning to the White House last month.
The association said it invests $ one hundred billion, and despite everything up to $ 500 billion, to build knowledge centers at the giant scale and the production of mandatory energy to continue the progression of AI. Trump described the “declaration of trust to revive in the perspective of America” under his new administration, the first assignment in Abilene, Texas, has been under structure for months.
Elon Musk, an advisor to Trump and fierce rival of Openai, who is in a legal struggle with the corporate and his CEO Sam Altman, publicly questioned Stargate’s investments.
After Trump’s announcement, several states contacted Openai on the reception of more knowledge centers, the Neuros Chris Lehane, vice president of World Affairs of Openai on Thursday.
The application for proposals from corporate requests sites with “proximity to infrastructure, adding electricity and water”.
AI uses giant power amounts, a giant component from which it comes from the combustion of fossil fuels, which reason the change in the climate. Data centers also attract giant amounts of water for cooling. Some generation giants have begun to finance nuclear energy to unite their knowledge centers.
Openai’s proposal does not mention whether it intends to prioritize renewable energy resources, such as wind or solar energy, to obtain knowledge centers. But he says that electric power suppliers have a plan to handle carbon emissions and water use.
“There are sites that we are contemplating where we should be a component of the procedure that brings new strength to this site, that is, of a new fuel deployment or other media,” said Keith Heyde, who directs Openai’s infrastructure strategy.
The first Texas allocation is in a region that the mayor of Abilene Weldon hurts in The Associated Press as rich in energy sources, adding wind, sun and gas. The corporation that also described in this way is the company that began building the Ia Knowledge Middle campus there in June, the same two “large and charming buildings” that Altman has shown in a recent video of drones published on social networks.
The CEO of Crusoe, Chase Lochmiller, said that wind energy is in the center of the task that his business built, will also have a fuel generator for emergency energy.
“We are looking to build knowledge centers in Puts where we can access low -cost energy resources, blank and abundant,” said Lochmiller. “The western Texas corresponds to this mold where it is one of the most suction solids and suction cups in the United States. “
Lochmiller said that he hopes that the Trump administration, despite the president’s opposition to wind farms, be pragmatic for wind knowledge centers when it comes to “in fact the least expensive to access power. “
Data centers were fed from about 4. 4% of all American electricity in 2023 and this construction of up to 6. 7% to succeed in 12% of the general American electricity until 2028, according to the laboratory Lawrence Berkeley.
The other states where Openai is actively investigating with Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Virginia-Western. Heyde said the company planned to build “between five and 10” campus in total, depending on the length of each.
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Associated Press, Jamey Keaten, contributed to this report.
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