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The Stargate project of $ 500 billion in order to give the United States an advantage in the artificial intelligence (AI) The race is forward following the announcement of five new sites in the AI data center revealed Tuesday by companies investing in the project.
OPENAI, Oracle and SoftBank have unveiled new data centers sites within the framework of the Stargate project which was announced for the first time in January as part of an investment of $ 500 billion in 10 gigawatts of data center capacity. The five new AI data centers include sites in the county of Shackelford, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; A Midwest site which will be announced soon; as well as sites in Lordstown, Ohio; and in the county of Milam, Texas.
Madison Alworth of Fox Business Network spoke with the CEO of Openai Sam Altman On the flagship campus of Stargate in Abilene, Texas, where Altman said: “We announced in January that we were going to do a project of $ 500 billion. We are ahead of the calendar with these sites that we have announced. It will be almost everything. And we will continue to explain it.”
“This is what it takes to operate the Chatppt. You send a request to your phone and it comes with an answer. You don’t think about it, but many people do this, and that requires all this incredible work behind us,” said Altman.
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Openai CEO Sam Altman said that Stargate’s joint venture was ahead of the calendar. (Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty Images / Getty Images)
After Tuesday’s announcement, Openai said that the Stargate project had reached more than $ 400 billion in investment committed over the next three years, which will represent nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity, leaving the project on the pace to obtain full commitment for $ 500 billion in investment and 10 gigawatts of electric capacity by the end of this year.
“The amount of Use of ChatPPT has increased by more than 10 times since the beginning of last year, much more. And as we can see more and more capable, which also takes more calculation to get there, there is much more use for them in the economy, people just want it much more, “said Altman.
“When we come from walking sites like this one and we look at the incredible work, the first thing we think is that it is great, and the second thing we think is that we must understand how much more, faster, better, cheaper to continue to respond to what the demand scales will be years,” he said.
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Oracle works with Openai and Softbank as part of the Stargate joint venture. (Openai / CFOTO / FUTURE Publishing via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Altman explained that Opnai and his partners weigh the best way to serve not only the growing current demand AI toolsBut also how to plan new features and products as they take place in the future.
“When people complain that Chatgpt is slow or do not get as much use as they want, they don’t have enough features – that’s what we have to do,” added Altman.
“To keep this promise, and also to hold all the companies that now depend on us and the mad quantity of the application for API, the request for Codex, not to say anything new features and new products that we will launch, we must understand how to continue to do this more and more quickly.”
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The SoftBank CEO, Masayoshi Son, began construction in the AI data center installations in Ohio. (Reuters / Brian Snyder / Reuters)
Alwort asked OpenAI’s co-founder of factors that the emerging AI giant was looking for to decide where to build the new Stargate data centers and explain why Texas has become a focal point for such installations.
“There are a few factors, many of which Texas is phenomenal. You need a lot of energy availability. You want a favorable regulatory environment This allows construction, fast permits. You need the talent to come and build it all … You need the land of course, “explained Altman.” There are a lot together, but Texas has been an unusually good place for us to do these projects. “”
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OPENAI said in its advertisement that companies had examined more than 300 proposals of more than 30 states while working towards the selection of today’s site, adding that additional sites will be announced while the group of companies finishes and exceeds its $ 500 billion initial dollars IA infrastructure commitment.
Madison Alworth of Fox Business contributed to this report.
