The real reason OpenAI backed away from an Oracle Stargate expansion in Abilene

The real reason OpenAI backed away from an Oracle Stargate expansion in Abilene

By Anissa Gardizy
Publication Date: 2026-03-09 17:30:00

Financial and data center executives bristled at a Bloomberg report Friday that Oracle and OpenAI will not expand a data center for the ChatGPT maker in Abilene, Texas, where the companies have opened their first facilities under the Stargate brand. As I have since learned, a few weeks ago OpenAI…