OpenAI's first data center in $500B Stargate project is open in Texas, with sites coming in New Mexico and Ohio

Group 1 - OpenAI and Oracle are launching the $500 billion Stargate program, focusing on infrastructure to support AI development [1][3] - The Abilene, Texas data center is a significant development in the global demand for AI infrastructure, with over $2 trillion planned worldwide [2] - OpenAI's partnership with Nvidia is expected to add approximately $500 billion in data center investments in the coming years [3] Group 2 - The Abilene site has one operational building and another nearing completion, with the potential to exceed a gigawatt of capacity, enough to power around 750,000 U.S. homes [4] - The scale of the project is crucial to meet the compute demands of OpenAI's models, as there is currently a significant compute shortage in the industry [5] - OpenAI's finance chief emphasized the growing recognition of the scale required for AI infrastructure, indicating that similar projects will emerge across the U.S. and beyond [5]