Stargate's first data center is underway in Texas. Public filings show how much it will cost to build.

Business Insider ^ | Jan 24, 2025 | Ellen Thomas

[Texas Fossil]

• President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion AI project, Stargate, earlier this week.
• Stargate's first data center is under construction in Abilene, Texas, said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison.
• Public filings for an Abilene development matching Ellison's description shed some light on costs.

Construction on what appears to be two buildings on Stargate's first data center campus, now underway in Texas, is expected to be complete by the end of the year and cost an estimated $1.1 billion, according to public filings.

[Texas Fossil]

This project is a strange mix of companies. It appears to have at first been a bitcoin mining project, but is now the beginning of a much larger venture.

I have mixed feelings about this. I am always cautious and don't trust things that I cannot understand. Trust me? Red flags go off, about things that are hidden or cannot be seen.

Open Source, I like. Things I can touch and feel, I like.

[ASOC]

Zero tax dollars?

Zero interest from me.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Funny, I never read anything by Ms. Thomas complaining about the billions Joe Pedo forked out for Certificates of Attendance for college deadbeats.

[Texas Fossil]

President Donald Trump announced the formation of Stargate, a joint venture between Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank, at a White House press conference on Tuesday. He pledged to spend $500 billion building AI data centers in the US.

Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison, who joined Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son at the briefing, said the first Stargate data centers are currently being built in Abilene, Texas.

[Texas Fossil]

I understand.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

An AI data center is going to require a huge amount of energy. Where are the new power plants to supply energy to this data center? This would be a lot more convincing if Texas filed for permits to build new fission plants and the Trump administration green-lighted them, cutting out the regulatory nonsense.

[William of Barsoom]

I remember an old, old, old Sci-Fi short story in the era of “pulp” Sci-Fi.

Seemms they built a big powerful comupter and connected it to all he world’s libraries, and asked it, “Is there a God?” The giant computer said, “Unknown — insufficient data.”

Time passed, and every few years, they’d ask the same quetion and get the same answer.

After a long time of soaking up information, one day they asked the same question, and the computer said, “There is now.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

From April 2024...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and OpenAI are collaborating on a data center project that could cost up to $100 billion. The project includes the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer called "Stargate" that is set to launch in 2028

The rapid adoption of generative AI technology has driven the demand for AI data centers capable of handling more advanced tasks. Microsoft is expected to finance the project, which is 100 times more expensive than existing data centers. The proposed supercomputer would be the largest in a series the companies plan to build over the next six years. Notably, Microsoft and OpenAI are currently in the third phase of their five-phase plan, with a significant portion of upcoming phases' costs allocated to acquiring necessary AI chips.

I love the artist's rendering of Stargate...

[Kathy in OC]

Have you read a lot of her articles? I’ve never even heard of her but didn’t see anything negative, or positive, about the cost in this article.

[Paladin2]

“...built in Abilene,...”

Prettiest AI Center I’ve ever seen....

[Texas Fossil]

I played with Elon Musk’s GROK AI engine. (I no longer have access to that.) I like his approach which is opensource, and he put his system together with a lot smaller cost than this project. He is cautious with AI, because of ethics. Meaning to retain our humanity.

The text portion of what he has was impressive. The image portions was very good in some areas, but in other areas not as complete.

[Kathy in OC]

Interesting that construction started in June 2024. I hope does better with this than he did with Foxconn.

[odawg]

“Where are the new power plants to supply energy to this data center?”

Trump said right alongside the facility.

Here in Louisiana, there will be two electrical generating plants built alongside the facility.

[logi_cal869]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but regardless DJT’s interest in this, I don’t find comfort in government advancement of such technology without specific constitutional protections.

I don’t care for the slippery slope bringing us to what is currently London, but nationwide.

[Theoria]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit in September to Abilene Christian University, giving ACU and its partners the go-ahead to build the Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on its Abilene, Texas campus. The nations first Molten Salt reactor in the nation.

The AI hub prob has a plan with this.

[PeterPrinciple]

After a long time of soaking up information, one day they asked the same question, and the computer said, “There is now.”

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just a variation of a theme from history.

and the roman emperor said, “there is now”

and Stalin said, “there is now.”

and the democrats said, “there is now”

[Texas Fossil]

Abilene Abilene prettiest town I’ve ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7F3bswH3w

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I went to work in the power industry when it was nearing the end of its then-rapid scale up in power generating unit capacity. What had started at 0.6 MW unit at the Pearl Street Station in 1882 and eventually reached 1,200 MW unit capacity. But the progress was slow, methodical and evolutionary. We never made a jump of 100X in capacity of anything. Capacity growth was often in 2X increments. To conceive of a data center 100 times larger than the previous largest one is incredible. I expect they will encounter a lot of unforeseen and difficult problems with that sort of jump in scale.

[TexasGator]

Trump:

“I’m going to help a lot through emergency declarations,” Trump said. “They have to produce a lot of electricity. We’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want, where they will build, at the AI plant, energy generation.”

[Empire_of_Liberty]

This is to distract you on your slide down the razor blade of life.

Government is probably the worse way possible to do science.