OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank today announced five new U.S. data center sites under the Stargate initiative, adding nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over the next three years. The announcement puts the project ahead of the $500 billion, 10-gigawatt commitment set in January.

Three sites developed by Oracle are located in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and an undisclosed Midwest location. Two sites developed by SoftBank are in Lordstown, Ohio and Milam County, Texas. Combined with the flagship Abilene, Texas campus and CoreWeave projects, Stargate now represents a buildout that has already started delivering compute — Oracle shipped the first NVIDIA GB200 racks in June and early training workloads are underway.

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk said the company’s infrastructure is helping OpenAI scale rapidly. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son noted the partnership’s design and energy expertise. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it “historic progress” toward fulfilling AI’s promise. The project, first announced at the White House in January with President Trump, has moved faster than expected, with over 300 proposals reviewed from more than 30 states.