As the global demand for AI computing continues to rise, OpenAIAnnounceThe company will work with cloud service provider Oracle to expand its AI data center in the United States with a capacity of 4.5GW as part of a recently announced large-scale infrastructure project.StargateThis is one of the important expansions of the company, which is to support the huge computing power requirements of its AI models.
Currently, OpenAI has built the Stargate I data center in Abilene, Texas, and the announced cooperation with Oracle will increase the total power consumption of the Stargate data center to over 5GW. It is expected to drive more than 200 million AI computing chips, making it one of the largest AI data center constructions in the world.
OpenAI said that this project is not only to meet the growing computing needs of its ChatGPT, Codex, Sora and other generative AI models, but will also be a reference model for future AI infrastructure standards. To this end, OpenAI is also working more deeply with SoftBank. The two parties are conducting site selection and construction pre-investigations in other regions around the world, and redesigning a more efficient and sustainable AI data center architecture.
Although OpenAI did not disclose the specific amount of the cooperation with Oracle, according toThe Wall Street Journal reportedIt is pointed out that OpenAI has signed a cooperation agreement with Oracle in June this year with an annual amount of up to US$6 billion, becoming one of the largest customers of the company in history. It can be seen that the cooperation between the two parties has extended from cloud platforms to physical hardware infrastructure, showing OpenAI's comprehensive layout for the long-term operation of future AI services.
Oracle has been actively expanding its AI cloud services and high-performance data center deployment in recent years. The cooperation with OpenAI will not only help it consolidate its position in the enterprise AI computing market, but also enhance its ability to compete with cloud competitors such as Microsoft and Google. The continued advancement of Stargate is expected to further rewrite the energy consumption and performance scale threshold of the AI infrastructure supply chain.
