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Stargate Abilene
The flagship of the $500B Stargate program: OpenAI's first purpose-built campus.
Announced at the White House in January 2025, Stargate is the OpenAI–SoftBank–Oracle program (with MGX) to build frontier AI infrastructure in the US at a stated up-to-$500B scale. Its first campus, developed by Crusoe on a Lancium energy site in Abilene, Texas, targets about 1.2 GW across eight buildings; Oracle operates the capacity for OpenAI, and the…
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OpenAI
Maker of ChatGPT and GPT-5, and the buyer behind the biggest compute deals ever signed.
OpenAI turned the transformer into a consumer phenomenon with ChatGPT (hundreds of millions of weekly users) and set the frontier pace from GPT-3 through GPT-4, the o-series reasoning models and GPT-5. In October 2025 it restructured: a nonprofit foundation controlling a public-benefit corporation, Microsoft at roughly 27% (reported). It is also the demand…
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SoftBank Group
Masayoshi Son's everything-bet on AI: Arm, OpenAI, Stargate, Ampere, Graphcore.
SoftBank owns ~90% of Arm, led OpenAI's record 2025 financing (a round reported up to $40B), co-chairs the Stargate program, and bought Ampere Computing and Graphcore: the single most aggressive capital allocator of the AI era.
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Oracle
The late-arriving cloud that bet the company on OpenAI and Stargate.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure became the AI era's specialist heavy lifter: hosting xAI, Meta and above all OpenAI, whose reported ~$300B multi-year commitment drove Oracle's disclosed future-revenue backlog past $450B in late 2025 and briefly made Larry Ellison the world's richest person. It is the operating partner across the Stargate campuses; the market's…
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