Stargate
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$500B joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle to build AI datacenter infrastructure across the United States and Middle East.
Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age
OpenAI's Stargate infrastructure accelerates past targets, adding 3GW of compute capacity in 90 days to power GPT-5.5 from Abilene's Oracle Cloud + NVIDIA GB200 facility.
AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Unaddressed workforce displacement from AI advancement, without concrete transition planning, risks escalating from backlash into violence against advocates and executives—a modern echo of Luddite-era labor conflict.
Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones
Microsoft is hardening datacenters across the Persian Gulf—spanning UAE, Qatar, Israel, and Saudi Arabia—after Iranian kinetic attacks on regional cloud facilities threatened OpenAI's Stargate infrastructure.
Iran threatens ‘Stargate’ AI data centers
Iran's military threatens Stargate's $500B Middle East data centers amid escalating U.S.-Iran conflict, exposing critical AI compute capacity to direct geopolitical risk.
Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi
Stargate, the $30B shared AI datacenter backing OpenAI and major infrastructure partners, becomes a geopolitical flashpoint as Iran threatens it amid US-Iran escalation.