OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle,

In addition to the 4.5 gigawatts of capacity announced today, Oracle is responsible for building one of OpenAI’s Texas data center campuses. The site is expected to house up to 400,000 of Nvidia Corp.’s GB200 Grace Blackwell accelerators. Each chip features two Blackwell B200 graphics cards and a 72-core Grace central processing unit.

OpenAI and Oracle will develop another 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding a tie-up that has promised hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment to keep the U.S. ahead in the global artificial intelligence race.