Overview

• OpenAI and Oracle announced a 4.5 gigawatt expansion that lifts Stargate’s capacity under development to more than 5 gigawatts.
• OpenAI will serve as an anchor customer for Stargate Norway, a 50-50 joint venture between Nscale Global Holdings and Aker ASA designed to deliver 230 megawatts of capacity and 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by the end of 2026.
• Early operations have begun at the Abilene, Texas campus with Nvidia GB200 racks powering initial AI training and inference workloads on site.
• Project partners plan a scaled-down Ohio facility by year-end 2025 after reports of internal disagreements, although OpenAI and SoftBank maintain their commitment to the full 10 GW goal.
• The structure of the overarching $500 billion funding pledge remains opaque, leaving specifics of partner contributions and timelines largely undisclosed.