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Key Facts Artificial Intelligence & Big Tech OpenAI’s $500 Billion Supercomputer Push: In a massive scale-up, OpenAI (with partners Oracle and SoftBank) unveiled plans for five new AI mega–data centers across the U.S., bringing its Stargate infrastructure to 7 GW capacity and over $400 billion invested openai.com. This puts OpenAI ahead of schedule toward a $500 billion, 10 GW goal by end of 2025 openai.com openai.com. “AI can only fulfill its promise if we build the compute to power it,” CEO Sam Altman said, framing compute as the key to future breakthroughs openai.com. Nvidia, which earlier this week agreed to invest up to $100 billion in