Stargate’s $500B AI push begins in Texas. Here are 10 key facts about the massive data center launched by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.

A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as an AI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison, Nvidia’s (NVDA) Jensen Huang, and Chuck Robbins of Cisco (CSCO),

OpenAI, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) , SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) and G42 are collaborating to build Stargate UAE. In January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison joined U.

As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.

UAE launches AI data center project with backing from Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Cisco – linking new campus to the Stargate initiative in the US.

The eight-building project in Texas is a central piece of OpenAI’s efforts to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for computing power.

I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” said Sam Altman, testifying before a Senate committee in 2023 in talking about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. With his position as CEO of OpenAI,