ExclusiveInside OpenAI’s Scramble to Get Computing Power After Stargate Stalled
When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged with developing it promised to move with lightning speed, spending $100 billion almost immediately to start building 10 gigawatts of computing capacity. More than a year later, the Stargate joint venture has not staffed up and is not developing any of OpenAI’s data centers, according to three people involved in the shelved idea. In the weeks following the...