Microsoft and ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI are planning a data center project that could cost up to $100 billion and will include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called Stargate, according to a report on Friday.
The companies did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Information reported Microsoft would likely be in charge of funding the project, which would cost 100 times more than today’s largest data centers, people familiar with the proposal said.
OpenAI’s next major AI upgrade is expected to arrive by early next year, the report said, adding that Microsoft executives hope to launch Stargate as early as 2028.
The proposed US-based supercomputer would be the largest in a series of facilities the two companies are considering building over the next six years, the report added.
The information comes from a person who spoke to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the matter and who viewed some of Microsoft’s initial cost estimates, putting the preliminary cost at $100 billion. It is said that
Their sources have not been identified.
Altman and Microsoft employees are deploying the supercomputer in five phases, with Stargate being the fifth phase.
Microsoft is working on a small, stage 4 supercomputer for OpenAI, with the goal of launching it around 2026, according to the report.
Microsoft and OpenAI are in the middle of the third phase of a five-phase plan, with much of the cost of the next two phases coming from procuring the necessary AI chips, according to the report.
“We are constantly planning the next generation of infrastructure innovations needed to continue pushing the frontiers of AI capabilities,” Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw said in a statement to the publication. states.
The proposed effort could cost more than $115 billion, more than triple what Microsoft spent last year on capital expenditures for servers, buildings and other equipment, according to the report. He says he will.
