Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-centre project, Stargate AI supercomputer: Report
AI-augmented web search is at our fingertips already The Information reported that Microsoft would likely finance the project, which is expected to be 100 times more costly than some of the biggest existing data centers, citing people involved in private conversations about the proposal. The proposed U.S.-based supercomputer would be the biggest in a series the companies are looking to build over the next six years, the report added. The Information attributed the tentative cost of $100 billion to a person who spoke to Altman about it and a person who has viewed some of Microsoft's initial cost estimates.
It did not identify those sources. Who is Mustafa Suleyman? Oxford dropout and new Microsoft AI CEO Altman and Microsoft have spread the supercomputers across five phases, with Stargate as the fifth phase. Microsoft is working on a smaller, fourth-phase supercomputer for OpenAI to be launched around 2026, according to the report.
Microsoft and OpenAI are in the middle of the third phase of the five-phase plan, with a significant portion of the cost for the next two phases involving acquiring the needed AI chips, the report said. AI chips are often sold at high prices. Chip company Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC earlier in March that the latest "Blackwell" B200 artificial intelligence chip will be priced between $30,000 and $40,000.
Microsoft had also announced a duo of custom-designed computing chips in November last year. Microsoft’s Inflection point: Acquire what you can’t create The report said the new project would be designed to work with chips from different suppliers. "We are always planning for the next generation of infrastructure innovations needed to continue pushing the frontier of AI capability," a
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