# Stargate Project **Domain:** AI Infrastructure / Data Centers / Energy **Doc Type:** Program Node **Maturity:** Developed **Primary Article:** [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]] ## Definition **The Stargate Project is an American AI-infrastructure program announced in January 2025 with an intended investment of $500 billion over four years.** Its initial equity funders were SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX; SoftBank held financial responsibility, OpenAI held operational responsibility, and Masayoshi Son was named chairman. The initial technology partners were Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI. ## Texas Geography The buildout began in Texas. OpenAI identifies Abilene as the flagship operating campus and later announced additional development in Shackelford County and Milam County. The Milam County site is being developed with SB Energy, which OpenAI selected to build and operate a 1.2-gigawatt data-center site while planning associated energy generation and storage. This makes Stargate a principal physical layer of the [[wiki/Computational-Civic Biome|computational-civic biome]] described in [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]]. The program joins capital, cloud operations, accelerators, land, power, construction, and community infrastructure in a form that can be mapped geographically rather than inferred only from software products. ## Dual Collection Position Within [[collections/US-Israel Leadership Alliance|US–Israel Leadership Alliance]], the article places Stargate in the wider Pax Silica platform that connects American compute scale with Israeli security and technology capacity. Within [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]], Stargate is an instance of [[wiki/Substrate Repatriation|substrate repatriation]] and [[wiki/Substrate Determinism|substrate determinism]]: strategic computation depends on power, chips, networking, cooling, data centers, operating authority, and jurisdiction as a combined physical system. ## Relationship to Genesis Mission The article interprets Stargate's private infrastructure and the federal [[wiki/DOE Genesis Mission|DOE Genesis Mission]] as complementary layers. That relationship is architectural unless a specific program interface, contract, dataset transfer, or shared authority is documented. Similar objectives and temporal adjacency do not establish organizational identity. ## Evidence Boundary Official announcements establish the funders, partner roles, investment intention, named sites, and planned capacities. They do not establish every medical, intelligence, national-security, or civilizational use proposed in the surrounding article. Capacity figures are plans unless an official source identifies an operating facility or delivered system. ## See Also [[wiki/Computational-Civic Biome|Computational-Civic Biome]] · [[wiki/Data Center|Data Center]] · [[wiki/Hyperscale Data Center|Hyperscale Data Center]] · [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] · [[wiki/DOE Genesis Mission|DOE Genesis Mission]] · [[wiki/Pax Silica|Pax Silica]] ## Sources / Provenance - OpenAI and SoftBank, [“Announcing The Stargate Project”](https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/), January 21, 2025. - OpenAI, [“OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites”](https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/), September 23, 2025. - OpenAI, [“OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy”](https://openai.com/index/stargate-sb-energy-partnership/), January 9, 2026. - [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]] — source of the dual-collection and Texas interpretation.