Trump’s Big AI Goals Start Small: 57 Jobs at a Texas Data Center (1)

In a small Texas city nearly 200 miles west of Dallas, the first data center associated with the $100 billion Stargate venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group Corp. and Oracle Corp. is taking shape.

About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, according to city documents seen by Bloomberg News. Oracle facilities that Chairman Larry Ellison has said are for Stargate are being developed on this land, according to people familiar with the matter. When it’s done, these data centers will help power cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems from OpenAI. ...