{"id":451224,"date":"2026-01-16T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/?p=451224"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:39:19","slug":"openai-and-softbank-to-invest-1-billion-in-sb-energy-for-stargate-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/openai-and-softbank-to-invest-1-billion-in-sb-energy-for-stargate-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and SoftBank to invest $1 billion in SB Energy for Stargate data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"360\">OpenAI and SoftBank Group (SoftBank) will invest $1 billion in SB Energy (SBE), splitting the funding evenly at $500 million each, to support data center development and related power infrastructure for the Stargate (Stargate) initiative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"543\">SBE will build and operate OpenAI\u2019s previously announced 1.2-gigawatt (GW) data center site in Milam County, Texas, as part of the partnership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"857\">Stargate is described as a multi-year effort to expand large-scale computing infrastructure in the United States, with a stated plan to invest up to $500 billion by 2029. Planning for the initiative began in 2022, involving OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and investment firm MGX.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"1092\">The latest investment is structured as equity funding into SBE, positioning the company as a development and execution partner for large data center campuses and associated energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1283\">Alongside the data center buildout, SBE will also adopt OpenAI\u2019s application programming interfaces (APIs) and deploy ChatGPT internally for employees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1285\" data-end=\"1545\">OpenAI\u2019s Stargate materials describe the initiative as focused on scaling the infrastructure required to train and run advanced artificial intelligence systems, including work tied to artificial general intelligence (AGI).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1756\">SBE\u2019s announcement also references a broader pipeline of large data center campuses under development, with initial facilities expected to enter service beginning in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI and SoftBank Group (SoftBank) will invest $1 billion in SB Energy (SBE), splitting the funding evenly at $500 million each, to support data center development and related power infrastructure for the Stargate (Stargate) initiative. SBE will build and operate OpenAI\u2019s previously announced 1.2-gigawatt (GW) data center site in Milam County, Texas, as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":451250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29330],"tags":[29398],"audience-intent":[],"content-types":[],"country":[],"entity":[],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-451224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"audience-intent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-intent?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"content-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-types?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=451224"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menatech.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=451224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}