A joint venture of OpenAI, SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund MGX to build gigantic AI data centers in the U.S. Launched in 2025, Oracle, Microsoft, ARM and NVIDIA are technology partners and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was elected chairman. The goal is the creation of a super intelligence (see
AGI). See
OpenAI.
Four Hundred Thousand Chips
With a projected budget of more than $500 billion over the next several years, the first Stargate data center is in Abilene, Texas, 150 miles west of Fort Worth. With an expected completion in late 2026, the data center will be large enough to eventually support 400,000 GPUs, making it the largest AI training hub on earth. See
Project Colossus.