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OpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company


Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are among the technology partners.

By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project. It also says that “Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system.”

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