Developers of OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Face Higher Costs

On a dusty stretch of prairie in Abilene, Texas, anxious hardware engineers from Crusoe, a data center developer for OpenAI and Oracle, have been working overtime to get natural gas turbines to work harmoniously with one of the most expensive AI supercomputers in history.

It has proven harder and more costly than expected, according to two people with direct knowledge of the issue as well as engineers and power grid experts briefed on the site, which is part of OpenAI’s Stargate computing effort.