On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion-per-year deal between OpenAI and Oracle,

This investment will primarily create new jobs, fuel the country’s reindustrialisation, and help advance the US AI leadership, it said in a statement.

OpenAI announced Tuesday that it will develop 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity in partnership with Oracle ORCL — confirming an expanded partnership between the two companies within the buzzy Stargate infrastructure initiative. Oracle stock was slightly lower Tuesday.

OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, furthering a massive plan to power artificial intelligence workloads.

The Wall Street Journal reported today that OpenAI and Softbank have not been able to agree on key issues regarding the partnership, including where to build the new sites. The group is now aiming to open a single, smaller data center, likely in Ohio, by the end of the year, according to sources familiar with the matter.

OpenAI is moving forward with its ambitious AI infrastructure plans in the US, unveiling a new agreement with Oracle to build a 4.5-gigawatt data center as part of its Stargate initiative. The announcement comes just days after a report claimed the project had been dramatically downsized due to tensions between OpenAI and major investor SoftBank.