OpenAI revela instalação Stargate AI no Texas, projeta expansão para cinco estados adicionais

O futuro da inteligência artificial acaba de ganhar um novo epicentro—e não fica no Vale do Silício.

Avanço Estratégico

A OpenAI desembolsou recursos massivos para erguer seu complexo Stargate no coração do Texas, marcando o maior investimento em infraestrutura AI da década. Cinco estados já estão na fila para receber projetos-irmãos—um movimento que redefine o mapa tecnológico americano.

Expansão Calculada

Fontes internas confirmam que a estratégia de descentralização busca aproveitar incentivos fiscais e custos operacionais menores. Enquanto Wall Street ainda debate se AI é moda passageira, a OpenAI constrói impérios concretos—literalmente.

O timing não poderia ser mais provocativo: reguladores discutem frameworks enquanto a empresa ergue data centers como se fossem castles medievais. Talvez os traders deveriam prestar menos atenção nos gráficos de ações e mais nas gruas no horizonte.

Residents have mixed reactions to the OpenAI project

Not all residents are pleased because of the facility’s water and power requirements. The city’s water reservoirs were about half-full this week. People must follow a twice-weekly outdoor watering schedule, alternating days based on whether their house numbers are odd or even.

The cooling system needs one million gallons from the city water supplies for its initial setup.

Shaolei Ren, a University of California, Riverside professor who studies environmental effects of artificial intelligence, said the closed-loop cooling system shows developers care about local water supplies. But he noted these systems need more electricity, which means more indirect water use through power generation.

Most residents first heard about Stargate when Trump announced it after returning to office in January. Originally planned for cryptocurrency mining, developers changed and expanded their plans for the artificial intelligence boom that ChatGPT started.

The partnership said it was investing $100 billion initially, possibly reaching $500 billion, to build large data centers and power systems for AI development. OpenAI recently signed a deal to buy $300 billion worth of computing power from Oracle, a major gamble for the San Francisco company that began as a nonprofit.

OpenAI and Oracle brought reporters and politicians, including Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, to tour the site Tuesday for the first time.

Cruz called Texas “ground zero for AI” because anyone building data centers wants “abundant, low-cost energy.”

Of the five other Stargate projects announced Tuesday, Oracle will work with OpenAI on one in New Mexico’s Doña Ana County and another in Shackelford County, Texas. The company also plans one in the Midwest.

Softbank has started construction on two more in Lordstown, Ohio, and Milam County, Texas.

These projects help OpenAI reduce its dependence on Microsoft, which was previously its only computing partner. Altman told reporters his company has been “severely limited for the value we can offer to people.”

“ChatGPT is slow. It’s not as smart as we’d like to be. Many users can’t use it as much as they would like,” Altman said. “We have many other ideas and products we want to build.”

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