OpenAI collaborates with Oracle to create a 4.5 GW data center, and the total Computing Power of the Stargate AI has exceeded 5 GW.

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding a 4.5GW data center, pushing the total computing power of "StarGate" past 5GW. Is the AI arms race entering a new phase of energy and capital? (Background: AIT: The U.S. and Taiwan are discussing the creation of a spaceport in Pingtung's Jiupeng, with suborbital flights to Houston taking only 2.5 hours) (Additional context: Can Tesla's supercomputer chip Dojo 2 disrupt the AI computing power competition? Musk: Renting computing power in the future is not ruled out) On July 22, OpenAI announced that it has signed a new agreement with Oracle to add 4.5 GW data center capacity to the large AI infrastructure of "StarGate", bringing the total scale to over 5 GW. Highlights of the agreement: The 5 GW era officially begins According to the press release, OpenAI's expansion is in line with the White House's previous push for the "10 GW AI plan within the U.S.", and is a key part of the $500 billion blueprint. The first location, StarGate I in Abilene, Texas, has expanded from 1.2 GW to about 2 GW; additional sites will be established in Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New Mexico, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other states. Each super-sized data center can consume up to 50 MW of power and is expected to simultaneously drive over 2 million AI training and inference chips. Huge investments and power challenges Market analysis indicates that while the new 4.5 GW capacity boosts OpenAI's cloud momentum, it also pushes funding and energy pressures to unprecedented heights. The overall $500 billion investment scale has led credit institutions to raise risk warnings, while SoftBank's funding momentum slowing has further highlighted the difficulty of financing. Another challenge is power supply: Such a scale will impose long-term loads on the U.S. power grid and environment, requiring local governments and utility companies to accelerate upgrades in electricity distribution and the proportion of renewable energy to support the continuous expansion of AI computing. Slapping WSJ? It is worth mentioning that just earlier on July 22, The Wall Street Journal quoted insiders in an article, revealing that the "StarGate" project, jointly led by SoftBank and OpenAI, originally planned to invest $500 billion in building data centers to support AI development, but after six months of start-up, no projects have materialized. Insiders said that although the project promised to "immediately" invest $100 billion, the current goal has shifted to building a smaller data center with lower design costs by the end of this year. Therefore, the community speculates that OpenAI's latest announcement released yesterday (22) is also an immediate response to the WSJ report. Related reports Bittensor ecosystem company xTAO listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange "XTAO.U", backed by investments from DCG and Animoca Brands, entering the decentralized AI wave Jen-Hsun Huang: I use AI to make myself smarter, not worried about AI taking human jobs What is the blockchain project Chainbase? What’s the outlook for Token C market? The intersection of Crypto full-chain data and AI <OpenAI collaborates with Oracle to build a 4.5 GW data center, StarGate AI total computing power breaks 5 GW> This article was first published in BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.