OpenAI considering building data centers in 16 U.S. states, including Texas

OpenAI, a chat GPT development company, is considering building additional data centers in 16 states, including Texas, Bloomberg News, CNBC and others reported on June 6.
According to CNBC, OpenAI executives sent out a request for proposals to states a week ago.
"A project of this magnitude is not only an opportunity to reindustrialize a part of America, but an opportunity to reinvigorate the American Dream in the information age," Su Lehane said.
On the 21st of last month, OpenAI announced that it would invest more than $500 billion with Japanese investment firm SoftBank and US software company Oracle to develop artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
The company announced that it will establish a joint venture called Stargate to build the platform. Initial investments will be made by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX, the state investment company of the United Arab Emirates.
Futobank will be in charge of fundraising, while OpenAI will be in charge of operations. Stargate's first data center will be located in New York, a small city in Abilene, Texas.
The data center will be built on 875 acres in Abilene, New York, the size of Central Park. OpenAI is also in the process of selecting sites for additional data centers in other parts of Texas.
The 16 states currently under consideration by OpenAI are Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania.
The campuses include New Hampshire, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. Each campus is designed to support approximately 1GW or more of power.
This is equivalent to the amount of electricity used by 750,000 to 1 million homes. "There has been a lot of interest from across the United States to host the Stargate project," Lehane said. "The site is
"In order to speed up the selection process, we began accepting proposals openly last week."