Tech giants Open AI, Oracle behind $165 billion data center campus near El Paso

OpenAI and Oracle are partnering to build the $165 billion Project Jupiter data center in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, near El Paso as part of OpenAI’s massive Stargate Project – aiming to spend half a trillion dollars this decade on infrastructure that enables artificial intelligence technology.

OpenAI’s announcement this week confirmed the two technology giants are behind the massive project, which was initially proposed by lesser-known BorderPlex Digital Assets out of Austin and its development partner Stack Infrastructure, which is based in Colorado.

“AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said in a statement. Compute refers to the hardware and software needed to run artificial intelligence models.

“That compute is the key to ensuring everyone can benefit from AI and to unlocking future breakthroughs. We’re already making historic progress toward that goal through Stargate and moving quickly not just to meet its initial commitment, but to lay the foundation for what comes next,” Altman said.

President Donald Trump announced the Stargate joint investment initiative in January on his first day in office alongside Altman, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son. Hours after that announcement, Trump’s then-adviser Elon Musk suggested OpenAI and SoftBank didn’t have the money to accomplish Stargate.

The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners approved an incentive deal for Project Jupiter by a 4-1 vote last week. That was the last hurdle before the project could proceed.


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