The Information reported that Microsoft is planning to work with OpenAI on a $100 billion data centre project that will include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called ‘Stargate’.
The supercomputer would be the biggest in a series of installations the companies are looking to build over the next six years, the report said, adding that the project is expected to launch ‘Stargate’ as soon as 2028.
Microsoft and OpenAI are currently in the third phase of a five-phase plan that involves procuring the AI chips needed for the supercomputer. The fourth and fifth phases will focus on building the hardware and software needed to run the AI system, the report said.
The Information reported that the proposed data centre project is 100 times more costly than some of the biggest current data centres. The supercomputer project’s total cost is expected to be around $115 billion, more than three times what Microsoft spent last year on capital expenditures for servers, buildings and other equipment.
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“We are always planning for the next generation of infrastructure innovations needed to continue pushing the frontier of AI capability,” Frank Shaw, a Microsoft spokesperson, said in a statement to the publication.
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