4.5 gigawatts of energy for OpenAI’s Stargate data center

⚡️4.5 GIGAWATTS⚡️

If OpenAI’s Stargate $500 billion mega-super-jumbo data center project is going to be as big as CEO Sam Altman says it is, it will need massive amounts of reliable power.

The Information is reporting that OpenAI has struck a deal for such an insane amount of electricity. Crusoe, an energy/cloud computing/data center startup with “.ai” in its URL, will supply the Stargate project with gas-powered turbines that could generate up to 4.5 gigawatts of power for the project.

The amount of energy secured by OpenAI is more than 2,250% more power than the 200 megawatts used by large hyperscale data centers, and it’s 4.5x the amount that Mark Zuckerberg said would be added to Meta’s data centers in 2025.

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