Etiquetas: Stargate project

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released a video on April 3 warning it would target OpenAI’s planned Abu Dhabi data center if the United States proceeds with threats to strike Iranian power plants. The clip, posted to a state‑backed Iranian news outlet’s X account, threatened “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S.-linked energy and technology firms in the region and displayed satellite imagery of the $30 billion Stargate facility. OpenAI has not commented, and the warning comes as President Donald Trump escalated rhetoric against Tehran. Leer más

OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, has announced she will leave the company at the end of January. Wong, who joined the firm in 2021 from Apple, expanded the communications team from a handful of staff to over 50 across multiple continents. In her absence, communications vice president Lindsey Held Bolton will assume interim leadership while chief marketing officer Kate Rouch leads the search for a permanent replacement. The announcement coincides with the recent addition of former UK chancellor George Osborne as head of OpenAI for Countries and comes amid a period of ambitious product rollouts and strategic projects at the AI firm. Leer más

Tech giants are rapidly expanding AI data centers to meet soaring demand for generative models. Projects like OpenAI's Stargate partnership, Meta's Hyperion facility, and new builds in Texas and Louisiana illustrate the scale of investment. The growth brings heightened energy use, with some centers consuming gigawatts and accounting for significant portions of regional electricity. Stakeholders debate the environmental impact, the role of renewable versus fossil‑fuel grids, and the political push‑back from local communities. At the same time, analysts warn that the massive supply of compute may outpace consumer demand, raising concerns about a potential AI bubble. Leer más

OpenAI is accelerating its AI compute ambitions by teaming with Broadcom to design and deploy custom AI accelerators, targeting a rollout of 10 gigawatts of chips by 2029. The partnership adds to existing agreements with NVIDIA, AMD and Oracle, which together promise tens of gigawatts of additional capacity. CEO Sam Altman has outlined a longer‑term vision of 250 gigawatts of compute over eight years, a scale that would require multi‑trillion‑dollar financing. The combined deals signal OpenAI’s push to secure the hardware foundation needed for its next generation of models while diversifying its supply chain across several chip makers. Leer más

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman detailed a bold plan to scale AI compute, aiming to build a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure each week. He highlighted partnerships with Oracle on massive data centers in Texas, a $500 billion Stargate Project, and Nvidia’s $100 billion investment to power the effort. Altman stressed the need for rapid innovation across chips, power, construction, and robotics, and framed widespread AI access as a future economic driver and potential human right. Leer más

OpenAI has reportedly pledged $300 billion to Oracle over a five‑year period to secure up to 4.5 gigawatts of power for new data‑center capacity, a deal announced by major newspapers and slated to begin in 2027. The agreement, part of OpenAI’s broader push to diversify beyond Microsoft Azure, ties into the company’s Stargate Project, a multi‑billion‑dollar effort to build AI infrastructure with partners including Oracle, Microsoft, Nvidia and Softbank. The deal reflects soaring demand for generative‑AI compute, with U.S. data‑center numbers having nearly doubled since 2021 and power consumption expected to double again by 2035. Leer más