OpenAI plans to invest US$20 billion to build a new ultra-large-scale data center in the United States. In the endless arms race of artificial intelligence, OpenAI has once again pushed the chips forward a lot.

OpenAI plans to invest US$20 billion to build a new ultra-large-scale data center in the United States. In the endless arms race of artificial intelligence, OpenAI has once again pushed the chips forward a lot. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to build a new ultra-large data center near Savannah, Georgia, USA. This behemoth is about to rise from the ground and is located in a data center campus in Effingham County. OpenAI has signed a contract with Georgia Power to secure 3.2 gigawatts of energy supply – a magnitude that would make it one of OpenAI’s largest projects to date. According to the plan, from 2028, hundreds of megawatts of power will first be put into use, and the remaining parts will not be completed until 2032. This is not a one-time project, but a continuous process spanning several years. In order to qualify for a local incentive policy, OpenAI gave an investment commitment of US$20 billion (approximately 135.534 billion yuan at the current exchange rate), and this policy will be put to a vote this week. OpenAI Sachin Karti, vice president of computing strategy, made a bigger calculation: If this data center really reaches full capacity of 3.2 gigawatts, the total cost may exceed US$30 billion. In other words, the 20 billion currently promised is only part of the final bill for this park. The data center in Georgia is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, OpenAI has raised its estimated computing power expenditures by 2030 to nearly US$750 billion (approximately RMB 5.08 trillion). Just earlier this year, that number stood at around $600 billion. In just a few months, it is expected that about 150 billion US dollars will be added out of thin air - this is not only a re-estimation of computing power needs, but also a public gamble. For those peers who are also laying out AI infrastructure, such numbers mean a recalculation of accounts. When OpenAI bets on computing power in the next five years to the level of US$750 billion, the cost coordinates of the entire industry may have to move accordingly. via AI News (author: AI Base)