Altman himself does not slow down, despite the average party with which ChatgPT-5 met. Opeli has just announced infrastructure plans that make the construction of the Sueke channel look like a weekend with a spatula in a sandbox. We are talking about USD 1 trillion for “city of machines” in Texas. This investment is to change the global technological landscape and bring humanity closer to Aga. Or maybe it’s just another speculative bubble with a range of Dot.com?
Texas as the Openai future construction site
In Abilene, Texas, the first elements of this technological colossus are already rising. Eight facilities are under construction, and more than six thousand workers work every day. Gas turbines pierce the Texan horizon like futuristic totems, while the teams place kilometers of fiber optic cables.
This is only the first phase of expansion, which is to feed the growing appetites of Chatgpt – a platform, which is already used by over 700 million users a week. And no, it’s not a mistake in statistics. It is worth noting at the same time that the OpenAI competition is not sleeping.
This is particularly visible after the increased Gemini 2.5 offensive from Google. Nanobanana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Generator – I am not surprised that Nanobanana has been accepted better) has shown that the graphics edition worthy of Photoshop from AI, enters a new level. The very medium reception of chatgpt-5 and practically forgotten Sora (video generator) clearly show that in the generative industry of artificial intelligence it begins to be crowded. This is not 2023, in which Opennai was practically a hegemon.
Mathematics of giant numbers
The OpenAI plan sounds like a science fiction script written by someone with an obsession with zeros. Over the next 18 months, the company plans to launch five more facilities in the United States, including Texas, Nowe Mexico and several Central West. Total energy power? 5.5 gigawatts.
Add to this partnership with Softbank, which will bring subsequent centers in Ohio and under Austin with a power of 1.5 GW, and you will receive a total power of 7 gigawatts. This is enough to power eight million American homes. Or to launch artificial intelligence that will think faster than, you will think about thinking.
Each computing power gigawat costs about USD 50 billion. Simple multiplication leads us to the amount of billion dollars, but experts predict that the target demand can reach over 100 GW. In this scenario, we are talking about infrastructure worth $ 5 trillion.
Graphics cards more expensive than cars
The CEO of OpenAI Altman himself admits that the project is historical, although the financing details are still in the sphere of plans. The centers will be equipped with thousands of the latest NVIDIA GB200 graphics processors – everyone costs about as much as Tesla Model 3. Security? Observation of cameras and limited access, because apparently corporate espionage is a real matter in the AI world. Could the protection against Elon Musk and Zuckerburg/
Altman does not hide that the financing mechanisms of this undertaking are still the subject of discussion. This is understandable, because even for technological giants BLN USD is a sum that requires a creative approach to accounting.
Reindustrialization or an energetic catastrophe initiated by OpenAI?
OpenAI management talks about the “reindustrialization” of the United States and sets of thousands of new jobs. It sounds beautiful, but the inhabitants of Abilene have mixed feelings. On the one hand, workplaces and taxes. On the other – gigantic energy and water consumption by installations that will work 24/7.
However, local authorities remain optimistic. Participation in the project is to guarantee the region a place on the map of future technological hubs. After all, it is better to be part of the AI revolution than its observer on the side.
The rate greater than the future of technology
The scale of this undertaking, supported by corporate giants and signaling billion expenses, shows how artificial intelligence plays the central role in the world economy. This is no longer an experiment in the laboratory, but a reconstruction of the foundations of digital economy.
Will the unprecedented construction boom bring the promised results? The answer to this question may decide about the next chapter of American technological history. And perhaps also about who will write the next chapters – people or machines that are just getting infrastructure worthy of their ambitions.
Opeli is not playing tag. He builds the future, piece by piece, gigawat after gigawat. Let’s hope that responsibility and a real approach to even abstract threats today also go hand in hand with ambitions. Otherwise, scripts from sci-fi movies and games may become more tangible than a sense of humor Chatugpt;)
