OpenAI's Stargate Project is a joint venture to build new AI infrastructure in the U.S., starting with a $100 billion supercomputer cluster, with a long-term vision to cost $500 billion by 2030.

OpenAI and its partners are planning to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to fund a data center buildout.

In November 2024, OpenAI published a document titled "OpenAI's infrastructure blueprint for the US" to justify its data center buildout and spending, invoking Russia and China as geopolitical rivals.

OpenAI had talked about almost $1.4 trillion in investments.

The stakes for AI infrastructure spending are over a trillion dollars.

Sam Altman engineered an escape route for OpenAI called Project Stargate, a $500 billion master plan for independent data centers.