OpenAI Raises Infrastructure Spending to $750B, Launches $20B Georgia Data Center
OpenAI announced it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, up 25% from earlier estimates, beginning with a $20 billion, 3.2-gigawatt data center campus in Georgia called Project Camellia. The company will pay full infrastructure and electricity costs, with power expected to become available between 2028 and 2032, largely from newly built natural gas capacity. OpenAI recently hired Brett Mayo, formerly of xAI's Colossus project, to lead data center construction.
Skynet Chance (+0.03%): Massive compute buildout expands the raw capacity available to train ever-more-powerful frontier models, marginally increasing long-term risk of systems whose behavior outpaces alignment and oversight.
Skynet Date (+0 days): Aggressive, well-funded infrastructure expansion and a fast-execution construction hire modestly accelerate the pace at which large-scale AI capabilities—and their attendant risks—could materialize.
AGI Progress (+0.02%): Securing gigawatt-scale compute removes a key physical bottleneck to scaling, a lever widely considered central to advancing model capabilities toward AGI, though this is investment rather than a capability breakthrough.
AGI Date (+0 days): A 25% larger spending commitment and dedicated multi-gigawatt data centers shorten the timeline to training frontier-scale systems, though power availability slipping to 2028–2032 tempers the near-term acceleration.
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