OpenAI abandons Stargate data center

OpenAI has canceled its plans to build the Stargate data center, a large-scale computing infrastructure. The decision was made following a failure to agree on contractual terms with Oracle, the designated provider to host the data center. Further complications arose due to reliability issues encountered by the operator.

Meta may take over

Despite OpenAI's abandonment of the project, interest in the computing capacity that Stargate would have offered remains high. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is reportedly considering acquiring the excess capacity originally intended for OpenAI. This interest underscores the growing demand for computing resources for training and inference of artificial intelligence models.

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