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OpenAI and Softbank team up for a $500 billion AI data center venture


OpenAI will build and open AI infrastructure worth $500 billion in the United States over the next four years in partnership with SoftBank.

OpenAI will build and open AI infrastructure worth $500 billion in the United States over the next four years in partnership with SoftBank. The company's official announcement says OpenAI, NVIDIA and Oracle will work together to "build and operate this computing system," though it didn't expound on what that means. As TechCrunch notes, it was previously reported that OpenAI was in talks with Oracle to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas that can reach almost a gigawatt of electricity by 2026.

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