Meta Platforms (META. O) is building a new gigawatt-scale data center in the U.S. state of Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a series of major investments by the company looking to keep pace in the highly competitive artificial intelligence industry. The company said Wednesday it will spend more than $1.50 billion on a new facility being built in El Paso, Texas. The data center will reportedly eventually have 1 gigawatt of capacity for high-end computing cores f...
OpenAI announced an agreement with Oracle to further develop a 4.5 gigawatt data center for the Stargate project.
OpenAI has presented the White House with plans to build 5 gigawatts of massive data centres to support advanced artificial intelligence, each with the power of a city. OpenAI believes this unprecedented infrastructure is critical to maintaining the US leadership in artificial intelligence development and boosting economic growth. But energy experts are sceptical about the viability of such megaprojects given the current challenges of grid connectivity and power generation.