Microsoft And OpenAI Partner To Create ‘Stargate’ AI-Powered Supercomputer

The following report is by Data Center Dynamics:

The Information reports that the project is still in the early stages, but would be expected to launch in 2028. Known as ‘Stargate,’ the development would expand over two more years – potentially needing as much as five gigawatts (5GW) to power it at full build-out.

Given the significant power needs, Microsoft and OpenAI have considered alternative power sources including nuclear power. Amazon recently purchased a Pennsylvania data center site next to a nuclear power plant, which the Information notes that Microsoft discussed bidding for.

Earlier this year, DCD exclusively reported that the hyperscaler had hired Archie Manoharan as director of nuclear technologies and Erin Henderson as head of nuclear development acceleration as it ramped up its interest in SMRs).

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also backed a small nuclear reactor company, Oklo, which plans to target data centers.

The chips in Stargate have yet to be decided – it could use future Nvidia GPUs, AMD GPUs, Microsoft’s AI chips, or something else. Altman is separately looking to raise money for his own chip venture, and OpenAI has hired a former Google TPU lead.

It would also require denser racks than Microsoft can currently support, with a higher heat load than it can handle.

As for networking, OpenAI reportedly wants to switch from Nvidia’s proprietary InfiniBand cables to Ethernet cables.

The project has been in discussion since at least last summer, but Microsoft is still deciding on where in the US to locate the facility. It is also still deciding whether the supercomputer will be a single building or multiple sites on a single campus.

Should Stargate happen, it would be the fifth phase of Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership. The companies are currently in their third phase, and have built multiple large supercomputers to develop ChatGPT and other generative AI models.

Ahead of Stargate, the companies plan to build a Phase 4 supercomputer in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with operations starting in 2026.

Microsoft recently received approval for a $1bn expansion at its existing campus there and acquired another 1,000 acres of nearby land.

That site could grow to support a $10bn supercomputer.

Together, all the upcoming projects could cost around $115bn. Microsoft currently spends around $50bn a year on all its Azure data centers, chips, and networking equipment.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Some things never change:

2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

It is no mistake that these big-tech people regularly and repeatedly keep naming their technologies after celestial things, or other created gods and divinities in the mythos.

As I have pointed out a number of times, the push for AI and supercomputing is rooted in playing God, and creating a new supreme God and a heavenly technological realm to live in. SEE:

• Google Founder And Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Engineers Admit ‘We’re Creating God’
• Must Read: Tech And Financial Gurus Seek To Leverage AI To Live Forever And Preserve Their Wealth
• WEF Advisor Yuval Noah Harari Discusses How AI Will Make ‘Big Decisions’ And Tell ‘People What To Do’
• Chat-GPT Creates ‘An Image Of God’ With An Ecstatic Bunny As The Subject
• A Growing Number Of People Are Turning To AI To Talk To Their Dead Loved Ones, And Trying To Live Forever
• Technomaniac Sam Altman Says He Intends To Replace Normal People He Calls ‘Median Humans’ With AI

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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