Five more Stargate sites broaden OpenAI's U.S. compute pipeline
OpenAI announced five new U.S. Stargate data-center sites with Oracle and SoftBank, representing up to 5.5 gigawatts of potential capacity across the selected locations.
Why it matters: Frontier compute expansion was becoming geographically distributed and tied to local power systems, permitting, construction, and community impact rather than one cloud region.