Oracle will spend about $40bn on Nvidia’s high-performance computer chips to power OpenAI’s new giant US data centre, as technology groups race to build the vast infrastructure needed to underpin artificial intelligence models.
The site in Abilene, Texas, has been billed as the first US Stargate project, the $500bn data centre scheme spearheaded by OpenAI and SoftBank, and will provide 1.2 gigawatts of power when it is completed next year, making it one of the largest in the world.
Oracle would purchase about 400,000 of Nvidia’s GB200 chips — its latest “superchip” for training and running AI systems — and lease the computing power to OpenAI, according to several people familiar with the matter.