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Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center
Artificial Intelligence // May 23, 2025

Oracle will reportedly buy $40 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips to power the first Stargate project, a new data center in Abilene, Texas. The company will buy 400,000 of Nvidia’s latest “superchips” for training and running artificial intelligence (AI) systems, the GB200 chips, and lease the computing power they...

OpenAI Texas Data Center Lands $11.6 Billion in Funding Commitments
Artificial Intelligence // May 21, 2025

One of OpenAI’s future data centers has reportedly secured $11.6 billion in funding commitments. The center, set to become the ChatGPT maker’s largest, is being constructed in the Texas community of Abilene by the startup Crusoe and is critical to boosting OpenAI’s computing power, the...

OpenAI Reportedly Ready to Close Record $40 Billion Funding Round
Investments // March 27, 2025

OpenAI is reportedly close to finalizing what would be the largest funding round of all time. That $40 billion round is being led by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, with other venture capital groups in talks to participate, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (March 26), citing sources familiar with the matter. The...

OpenAI Plans Grand Expansion While Losing Billions. Sound Familiar?
Artificial Intelligence // February 13, 2025

From its genesis as a small nonprofit startup in Silicon Valley in 2015, OpenAI has transformed itself into the top artificial intelligence (AI) company today, a status minted by ChatGPT, the most widely used AI chatbot in the world. Its ambitions are nothing short of...

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OpenAI Plans Grand Expansion While Losing Billions. Sound Familiar?

February 13, 2025
From its genesis as a small nonprofit startup in Silicon Valley in 2015, OpenAI has transformed itself into the top artificial intelligence (AI) company today, a status minted by ChatGPT, the most widely used AI chatbot in the world. Its ambitions are nothing short of grand: Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood with President […]

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Stargate Dials Back Near-Term Goal Amid Disagreement Over Data Center Sites

July 21, 2025
The Stargate artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project reportedly got off to a slow start. Six months after project was announced, the newly formed company operating the effort has not made a deal to build a data center and has shifted its goal from investing $100 billion immediately to building one data center by the end of 2025, […]

Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center

May 23, 2025
Oracle will reportedly buy $40 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips to power the first Stargate project, a new data center in Abilene, Texas. The company will buy 400,000 of Nvidia’s latest “superchips” for training...

OpenAI Texas Data Center Lands $11.6 Billion in Funding Commitments

May 21, 2025
One of OpenAI’s future data centers has reportedly secured $11.6 billion in funding commitments. The center, set to become the ChatGPT maker’s largest, is being constructed in the Texas community...

OpenAI Reportedly Ready to Close Record $40 Billion Funding Round

March 27, 2025
OpenAI is reportedly close to finalizing what would be the largest funding round of all time. That $40 billion round is being led by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, with other venture capital groups...