Welcome to the TechBrew Right Home for Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Stargate gets off the ground, or at least announces it is. What if OpenAI leases the chips from

Nvidia instead of buying them? I go a bit deep in this episode in terms of the incentives behind

all these recent AI moves,

and what happens if AI makes translation as ubiquitous as spellcheck?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank have announced five new data center locations in the U.S.

as part of the Stargate

initiative boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly seven gigawatts.

Quoting Wired, AI is different from the Internet in a lot of ways, but one of them is just how

much infrastructure it takes.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a press briefing in Abilene, Texas on Tuesday,

he argued that the U.S.

quote, cannot fall behind on this, and the innovative spirit of Texas provides a model for how to scale bigger, faster, cheaper, better. Three of the new sites in Shackleford County, Texas,

Donya-Anna County, New Mexico, and a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the Midwest are being

developed in

partnership with Oracle. The move follows an agreement. Oracle and OpenAI announced in July to

develop up to 4.5 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity on top of what the two companies are

already building at the first Stargate facility in Abilene. OpenAI claims the new data

centers, along with a planned 600-megawatt expansion of the Abilene site,AI claims the new data centers, along with a planned 600 megawatt expansion of the

Abilene site, will create more than 25,000 on-site jobs, though the number of workers

required to build data centers typically dwarfs the amount needed to maintain them afterwards.

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