OpenAI’s $500 Billion Supercomputer Push: In a massive scale-up, OpenAI 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 OpenAI reuters.com reuters.com, saw chip stocks rally on the news. Analysts predict these expansions will enable exascale processing by 2027, fueling advances from drug discovery to climate modeling future.forem.com future.forem.com. Critics, however, warn such concentration of AI power heightens monopoly risks, prompting louder antitrust calls in Washington future.forem.com.