OpenAI announces data center energy cost control plan

PANews January 21 News, OpenAI announced on Tuesday the “Stargate Community plan,” aimed at “achieving energy self-sufficiency” and ensuring its operations do not increase local community electricity costs. The “Stargate plan” is a multi-year project costing $500 billion, designed to build artificial intelligence data centers for training and inference, supported by major investors including Oracle. As energy access becomes a critical constraint for AI development, several tech companies are directly investing in power infrastructure to support larger and more numerous data centers. OpenAI stated that each “Stargate plan” site will have a tailored community program, “which will be community opinion and local needs-driven.” “Specifically, this may include providing brand-new dedicated power and storage facilities (fully funded by the project), or increasing and paying for new energy generation and transmission resources.”