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    OpenAI breaks ground on a massive 1GW AI campus in Michigan

    OpenAI just broke ground on "The Barn," a 1GW Stargate data center campus in Saline, Michigan, alongside Governor Gretchen Whitmer and partners like Oracle. The project features a closed-loop water cooling design, pledges zero extra utility costs for local residents, and unlocks $45M in Codex credits for over 400,000 local students. Why it matters: Frontier AI has fully evolved into a high-stakes physical infrastructure game, and OpenAI is staking its compute future on heavy-industry partnerships.

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    Oracle and OpenAI drop Texas mega-cluster expansion

    Oracle and OpenAI just abandoned plans to expand their flagship AI data center in Abilene, Texas, walking away from 600 megawatts of capacity after financing talks stalled. Meta is already in talks to lease the site from developer Crusoe, with Nvidia actively brokering the deal to keep its chips in the facility.

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    OpenAI wants the US government to back its $1T compute bill

    OpenAI is seeking federal loan guarantees to help bankroll a massive $1 trillion AI infrastructure push. CFO Sarah Friar said government backing would slash borrowing costs and widen access to credit as the company juggles a $300 billion Oracle deal and a $500 billion Stargate project. She also ruled out an IPO anytime soon.

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    OpenAI enlists Samsung and SK for Stargate

    OpenAI just recruited Samsung and SK into its massive Stargate infrastructure push to lock down critical memory supplies and build data centers in Korea. The partnership targets 900,000 DRAM wafer starts per month to power frontier models, alongside new regional data center builds. Why it matters: High-bandwidth memory is the ultimate AI bottleneck, and locking in the world's two largest memory giants gives OpenAI an unmatched hardware pipeline.

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    OpenAI and Oracle ink 4.5 GW mega-deal for Stargate

    OpenAI just struck a deal with Oracle to add 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity in the U.S. for its Stargate infrastructure project. Combined with its Texas site, Stargate now has over 5 GW under development to house more than 2 million chips, with initial Nvidia GB200 racks already spinning up early frontier workloads.

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    OpenAI poaches top talent from Tesla and xAI

    OpenAI just hired four high-profile engineers from rivals Tesla, xAI, and Meta to bulk up its scaling team. The recruits include former Tesla VP David Lau and xAI infrastructure lead Uday Ruddarraju, who helped build the 200,000-GPU Colossus supercomputer. The move signals escalating talent wars as OpenAI pushes forward on massive infrastructure projects like Stargate.

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    OpenAI and G42 launch Stargate UAE in 1GW AI push

    OpenAI just launched Stargate UAE alongside G42, Nvidia, Oracle, and SoftBank as its first international infrastructure hub under the OpenAI for Countries initiative. The plan involves building a 1GW compute cluster in Abu Dhabi with 200MW arriving in 2026, while the UAE enables ChatGPT nationwide.

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    OpenAI launches "OpenAI for Countries" to build sovereign AI infrastructure

    OpenAI just launched "OpenAI for Countries," an initiative under its Stargate project aimed at helping nations build sovereign data centers, deploy localized versions of ChatGPT, and seed local startup ecosystems. Partnering closely with the U.S. government, the company aims to roll out 10 country-level projects in its first phase as a democratic counterweight to authoritarian AI.

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    OpenAI plans massive compute pivot from Microsoft to SoftBank

    OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in its computing power over the next five years, expecting to get three-quarters of its data center capacity by 2030 from Stargate, a project heavily financed by SoftBank. The transition away from Microsoft won't happen overnight, but OpenAI projects burning $20 billion in cash in 2027 as inference costs eventually overtake training.

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    Microsoft and OpenAI tweak their mega-deal through 2030

    Microsoft just announced an evolution of its strategic partnership with OpenAI, locking in core terms through 2030 and teaming up on the Stargate supercomputer project. While Microsoft keeps Copilot IP rights and Azure API exclusivity, it loosened its capacity lock to a right of first refusal, clearing OpenAI to build additional training compute.

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    Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly plan $100B AI supercomputer

    Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly plotting a massive data-center project featuring an AI supercomputer dubbed "Stargate," which could cost up to $100 billion. The system would pack millions of chips, demand gigawatts of power, and potentially launch as early as 2028. It highlights their massive bet on compute, though Microsoft's ultimate green light reportedly hinges on OpenAI actually delivering major model breakthroughs.