OpenAI's Stargate: AI Enters the Industrial Age
2025-05-23
OpenAI's Stargate project isn't just software; it's a $500 billion initiative building the infrastructure for an AI industrial revolution. The first site in Abilene, Texas, spans 900 acres, consumes 1.2 gigawatts of power, and cost $12 billion to construct, aiming to produce, distribute, and monopolize AI compute at a planetary scale. This involves controlling the entire AI supply chain from energy production and chip acquisition to model design, distribution, and monetization. This marks a shift from cloud computing to an energy-intensive industrial model, potentially reshaping capital markets, labor structures, and national security policy.
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