OpenAI creator Sam Altman testified before the Senate in May. His company just announced its planned five new data centers to be built around the United States. File Photo by Anna Rose Layden/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- OpenAI's new Stargate data center site in Abilene, Texas, is up and running, the company announced.
The site has one data center in operation, which uses Oracle Cloud infrastructure and Nvidia chips. It's being leased by Oracle. It's the first on site in Abilene, with another soon to power up.
The company also announced five new U.S. AI data center cites under Stargate, the company's AI infrastructure platform. Some of the new sites are in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and an unnamed site in the Midwest. There will be an additional potential expansion near the flagship site in Abilene, a press release said.
The sites are expected to create more than 25,000 onsite jobs, and "tens of thousands of additional jobs across the U.S."
