OpenAI is looking to Canada as a potential location for data center partnerships, driven by the country's abundance of energy and land, said George Osborne, the company's head of countries. Osborne made the remarks while speaking to Bloomberg at Mark Carney's investment summit in Toronto. The summit, which took place on September 14 and 15, brought together around 100 of the world's largest investment firms, with Carney aiming to catalyze $1 trillion in investments over five years.
Osborne, who previously served as Britain's chancellor from 2010 to 2016, joined OpenAI in December as managing director and head of OpenAI for Countries, the division responsible for expanding the Stargate model globally. He praised Carney's plan for AI adoption, describing it as one of the clearer plans among western governments and calling the prime minister's medium and long-term plan very impressive.
In contrast, OpenAI's experience in Europe has been more challenging. The company paused its Stargate UK project in April, citing the need for more favorable regulation and energy costs to support long-term infrastructure investments. The project had planned to deploy 8,000 Nvidia GPUs in northeast England, with the goal of scaling up to 31,000. However, British industrial electricity costs are roughly four times higher than those in the United States, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, making it less competitive.
OpenAI did successfully establish a presence in Norway, where its Stargate Norway data center runs on Narvik hydropower, with an initial capacity of 230 megawatts and a target of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by the end of the year. The EU, meanwhile, is attempting to address its own energy and infrastructure challenges through a gigafactories initiative, which has attracted significant investment, including a $10 billion bid from France.
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