en.Wedoany.com Reported - OpenAI and SoftBank have each committed $19 billion to the Stargate project, together holding an 80% stake (40% each) in the joint venture, which aims to build one of the world's largest artificial intelligence computing infrastructure projects. This total investment of $38 billion represents the first phase of the plan, which could mobilize up to $500 billion in investment over the coming years, primarily for constructing next-generation large-scale data centers to train and run advanced AI models. The information comes from The Information website.
The initiative aims to address the growing global demand for computing power, which is seen as one of the main bottlenecks in the current evolution of generative AI. As model complexity and data volumes increase, tech companies are rapidly expanding infrastructure to remain competitive in a multi-trillion-dollar market. According to the published financial model, OpenAI and SoftBank bear most of the equity capital, with the remaining funds secured through strategic partner participation and structured financing. Investors include Oracle, which provides some technical infrastructure and cloud services, and MGX, an Abu Dhabi-based investment fund focused on frontier technology and AI. Beyond direct investment, a significant portion of the funds is expected to be raised from the market through debt operations to expand investment capacity and accelerate the deployment of new processing centers.
The Stargate project aims to build extremely high-capacity data centers capable of supporting computing loads far beyond current levels, running thousands of dedicated AI accelerators, advanced storage systems, high-speed connectivity, and energy solutions with high power consumption. Experts point out that computing power availability has become a strategic factor, as important as oil or electricity in previous industrial revolutions, giving companies that can rapidly scale processing resources an advantage in developing more complex models and offering new AI-based services. The project is designed to support next-generation AI applications, including multimodal models, intelligent agents, enterprise automation, scientific discovery, software development, and applications in health, finance, industry, and education.
For SoftBank, this investment reinforces its strategy to position the Japanese group as a major global investor in AI, having significantly increased its exposure to the field in recent years. The partnership with OpenAI strengthens the relationship between the model-developing company and infrastructure companies to reduce external dependencies and accelerate computing power expansion. For OpenAI, the investment aims to ensure continued access to the infrastructure needed to train future AI models. As AI applications grow, data centers have become some of the most valuable assets in the tech industry, and controlling part of the infrastructure can reduce the risk of capacity shortages and improve the predictability of service expansion.
