OpenAI is searching the U.S. for sites to construct a network of big data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas area and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump.

The maker of ChatGPT put out a request for propositions for land, electrical power, engineers and annunciogratis.net architects and started going to places in Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week.

Trump touted Stargate, a newly formed joint endeavor between OpenAI, wiki.rrtn.org Oracle and Softbank, quickly after going back to the White House last month.

The collaboration said it is investing $100 billion - and ultimately approximately $500 billion - to build large-scale data centers and the energy generation needed to further AI development. Trump called the job a "definite statement of confidence in America ´ s prospective" under his brand-new administration, though the very first job in Abilene, Texas, has been under construction for months.

Elon Musk, a Trump consultant and strong competitor of OpenAI who remains in a legal fight with the business and its CEO Sam Altman, has openly questioned the worth of Stargate's financial investments.

After Trump's statement, a number of states reached out to OpenAI about inviting extra information centers, Chris Lehane, OpenAI's vice president of international affairs, told press reporters Thursday.

The company's ask for proposals calls for sites with "distance to necessary facilities consisting of power and water."

AI uses huge amounts of energy, much of which originates from burning nonrenewable fuel sources, which triggers environment change. Data centers also generally attract large quantities of water for cooling. Some tech giants have begun funding nuclear power to plug into their information centers.

OpenAI's proposition makes no reference of whether it means to focus on sustainable energy sources such as wind or solar to power the information centers. But it says electrical power service providers ought to have a plan to handle carbon emissions and water use.

"There ´ s some sites we ´ re taking a look at where we want to assist be part of the procedure that brings new power to that website, either from brand-new gas deployment or other methods," said Keith Heyde, who directs OpenAI ´ s facilities method.

The very first Texas project remains in a region Abilene Mayor Weldon Hurt has actually explained to The Associated Press as abundant in several energy sources, including wind, kenpoguy.com solar and gas. Also explaining it that way is the company that began building the AI data center campus there in June - the very same 2 "big, beautiful structures" that Altman revealed off in a current drone video posted on social networks.

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller said that wind power is main to the project his business is developing, though it will also have a gas-fired generator for backup power.

"We attempt to construct information centers in locations where we can access low-cost, tidy and abundant energy resources," Lochmiller said. "West Texas actually fits that mold where it is among the most regularly windy and bright places in the United States."

Lochmiller said he anticipates the Trump administration, despite the president's opposition to wind farms, to be pragmatic in supporting wind-powered information centers when it is "in fact the least expensive way to gain access to energy."

Data centers consumed about 4.4% of all U.S. electrical power in 2023 which ´ s anticipated to increase to 6.7% to 12% of total U.S. electrical power by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The other states where OpenAI is looking include Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, forum.pinoo.com.tr Maryland, Nevada, New York City, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. Heyde said the company just plans to construct "somewhere in between five to 10" schools in total, depending on how big each one is.

OpenAI previously depended on company partner Microsoft for its computing requires. But the two companies recently changed their partnership to make it possible for OpenAI to pursue information center development by itself.

Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten added to this report.

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