Initiative overview
The Stargate Project was announced in January 2025 at the White House alongside President Trump, as part of a broader effort to spur investment in American AI infrastructure. The initial equity funders are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX, with SoftBank holding financial responsibility and OpenAI holding operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son serves as chairman. Key technology partners include Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI. The project intends to deploy $100 billion immediately, with the remaining investment phased over four years.
Five new US data centre sites have been announced under Stargate: three developed by Oracle in Shackelford County (Texas), Doña Ana County (New Mexico), and Wisconsin; one by SoftBank in Lordstown (Ohio); and one in Milam County (Texas) developed with SB Energy. These join the flagship campus in Abilene, Texas, already operational on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The five sites were selected following a review of over 300 proposals from more than 30 states. Combined with ongoing projects with CoreWeave, total planned capacity reaches nearly 7 gigawatts, with over $400 billion in investment over the next three years.
The project is expected to create over 25,000 on-site jobs and an important number of additional jobs across the United States. On the infrastructure side, Oracle began delivering the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June 2025, with early training and inference workloads already underway. The initiative is framed as serving both economic and national security purposes, aiming to secure American leadership in AI and provide strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies. Additional US sites are expected to be announced as the initial $500 billion commitment is met and surpassed.
