Stargate Community

OpenAI 的使命是确保 AGI 惠及全人类。为实现这一目标，我们致力于让 Stargate 校区 的建设与运营回馈所在社区。我们认为， AI 基础设施 对美国的竞争力和经济机会至关重要，同时能通过创造就业和带动地方收入，促进当地经济发展。

一年前（2025 年 1 月）宣布 Stargate 时，我们计划到 2029 年将美国境内的 AI 基础设施扩展到 10GW。仅用一年时间，在规划容量上我们已远超半数——首个站点位于 Abilene ， Texas ，已经开始训练并服务前沿 AI 系统，且在 Texas 、 New Mexico 、 Wisconsin 和 Michigan 等地还有多个 Stargate 站点正在开发中。我们承诺与社区合作，确保 Stargate 校区 的建设与运营能加强社区实力，体现出我们作为良好邻里的责任。

AI 已带来切实好处：每周帮助数亿人改善健康与福祉，并推动新的科学进展。与此同时，AI 模型的能力与能效年年提升。随着能力提高，AI 的应用需求更加旺盛，因为智能可以以更低成本去解决更重要的问题，而人们愿意解决的问题没有界限——因此我们和整个行业都认为，需要大规模的 AI 基础设施来满足这种需求。

与当地社区的合作始于理解当地需求。今后，每个 Stargate 站点 都会制定以社区为本、因地制宜的 Stargate Community 计划，采纳社区意见并回应地方关切。所有计划都基于同一核心前提： Stargate 是与社区的伙伴关系，只有做好邻居工作才能实现我们的使命。

在所有 Stargate Community 计划 中，我们承诺自行承担能源成本，确保我们的运营不会抬高当地电价。各地的能源需求和电网条件各不相同，我们的承诺会根据地区进行定制。视具体场址而定，措施可包括项目自行出资引入专用电力与储能，或推动并支付新增发电与输电资源。具体做法可以包括：

• 资助为满足我们负荷所需的新增发电与电网升级；
• 与地方公用事业、电力输送方、州级监管机构（如公用事业/服务委员会）和区域电网运营方开展透明且前瞻性的规划；
• 与公用事业、电网运营方和业界合作，开发将 AI 校区作为灵活负荷运行的策略，以便在预测到用电高峰或电网压力时，降低或中断用电，并参与需求响应与电网稳定计划。

我们已在既有 Stargate 校区 与合作伙伴推进这些做法。例如：

• 在 Wisconsin ，我们的合作方 Oracle 和 Vantage 正与 WEC Energy Group 合作开发包括太阳能和电池储能在内的新发电与新增容量。我们的开发商合作方还通过 WEC 提供的专用电价，全额承担供电基础设施投资。拟议的费率旨在保护其他客户免于因为为本设施提供服务而产生的新增投资导致的价格上升。
• 在 Michigan ，我们的合作方 Oracle 和 Related Digital 与 DTE Energy 合作，拟以现有资源供电，并由项目全额出资新增电池储能进行补充。该结构旨在确保不会影响 DTE 的既有用户的能源供应或电价；同时 DTE 的用户也能从项目分担电网维持和改造的固定成本中受益。
• 在 Texas ，我们的合作方 SB Energy 计划出资并建设新的发电与储能设施，以提供我们在 Milam County 开发的 Stargate 校区 所需的大部分电力。

我们也很高兴看到主要供应商之一 Microsoft 宣布了以社区为先的 AI 承诺，这些承诺也适用于他们为我们建设的 AI 校区。

这些只是早期示例。我们将继续寻找切实方式惠及地方社区，包括：

• 通过优先采用闭环或低用水冷却系统，尽量减少用水并保护当地生态。AI 校区和深度学习工作负载采用的冷却水系统设计能将用水量大幅降低，远小于传统数据中心的用水。我们的设施所需用水应仅占社区总体用水的一小部分。正如 Abilene 市市长 Weldon Hurt 所指出， Abilene 站点一年的用水量不到该市一天用水的一半。这类设计已在我们所有 Stargate AI 校区 中采用——例如与 Oracle 在 Abilene 及 Shackelford County（ Texas ）、在 Doña Ana County（ New Mexico ）、 Saline Township（ Michigan ）、 Port Washington（ Wisconsin ）及我们与 Microsoft 在 Mount Pleasant（ Wisconsin ）的最新 AI 校区均有应用。此举还会配合与当地合作方共同制定的场址特定环境与基础设施投资。例如在 Wisconsin ，我们的合作方将至少投资 1.75 亿美元用于当地基础设施升级和水资源修复项目。
• 通过提前投资地方就业和职业通道，将 OpenAI Academies 打造成 Stargate 社区 区域劳动力培养的支柱。每个学院都会根据当地情况定制，提供证书课程并为符合地方雇主需求的高质量岗位建立清晰的就业通道。我们将于今年春季在 Abilene 启动首个 Stargate 社区 的 OpenAI Academy 。我们也在与工会和劳动力合作伙伴协同，支持建设和运营大规模 AI 基础设施所需的技术与技能型劳动力。

Stargate 是一项需要深度合作的实体基础设施计划。我们依赖并感谢让其成为可能的社区，承诺作为长期伙伴持续投入与参与。

（注：图为来自多家合作公司的 Stargate 社区 成员在由 OpenAI 主办的 Milam County 数据中心 开放日现场合影。大家在室内、以轻松研讨会式的场地围绕欢迎牌合影，面带笑容。）

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity, and in order to do that, we are working to ensure our Stargate campuses benefit the local communities that make them possible. We believe that AI infrastructure⁠ is vital for American competitiveness and economic opportunity, while boosting local economies by creating jobs and bringing in local revenue.

When we announced Stargate one year ago in January 2025, we set out to expand our U.S. AI infrastructure to 10GW by 2029—and just one year in, we are already well beyond halfway to that goal in planned capacity, with the first site in Abilene, Texas already training and serving frontier AI systems and multiple Stargate sites under development across Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We are committed to working with communities to ensure that our Stargate campuses are built and run in a way that strengthens communities and demonstrates that we’re being good neighbors.

AI is delivering tangible benefits already, from helping hundreds of millions of people with their health and wellness every week to unlocking new scientific advances. At the same time, we are making the AI models themselves much more capable and power efficient each year. As we’ve done so, demand has increased even more, since intelligence can more affordably be applied to more important problems, and there’s no limit to the problems that people want to solve. That’s why we and the industry see a critical need for such large-scale AI infrastructure.

Partnering with local communities starts with understanding local needs. Going forward, every Stargate site will have its own locally tailored Stargate Community plan, driven by community input and local concerns. They will all rest on this same core premise: Stargate is a partnership with communities, and we can only achieve our mission by being good neighbors.

Across all of our Stargate Community plans, we commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don’t increase your electricity prices. Every community and region has unique energy needs and grid conditions, and our commitment will be tailored to the region. Depending on the site, this can range from bringing new dedicated power and storage that the project fully funds, to adding and paying for new energy generation and transmission resources. This commitment can be grounded in specific approaches like:

1. Funding the incremental generation and grid upgrades our load requires
2. Planning transparently and proactively with local utilities, transmission providers, state utility regulators (public utility/service commissions) and regional grid operators
3. Working with utilities, grid operators, and the industry to develop strategies for operating AI campuses as flexible loads, so when peak conditions or grid stress are forecast, we can reduce or curtail consumption and participate in demand-response and grid-stability programs

We are already working with partners to deliver this on existing Stargate campuses. For example:

• In Wisconsin⁠, our partners Oracle and Vantage are working with WEC Energy Group to develop new energy generation and capacity, including solar and battery storage. Our developer partners are also underwriting 100% of the power infrastructure investment through a dedicated electricity rate from WEC. The proposed rate is designed to protect other customers from price increases associated with the new investments needed to serve the facility.
• In Michigan⁠, our partners Oracle and Related Digital are working with DTE Energy to supply the project’s power using existing resources, augmented by a new battery storage investment financed entirely by the project. The structure is designed to help ensure there is no impact on DTE’s existing customers’ energy supply or rates. DTE customers can also benefit from the project contributing its share to the fixed costs of maintaining and improving the grid.
• In Texas, our partners SB Energy plans to fund and build new energy generation and storage to supply the majority of the power needed to run the Stargate campus we’re developing together in Milam County.

We’re also encouraged to see one of our key providers, Microsoft, announce community-first AI commitments⁠, which apply to the AI campuses they build for us.

These are early examples, and we’ll continue to find meaningful ways to benefit local communities including:

• Minimizing water use and protecting local ecosystems by prioritizing closed-loop or low-water cooling systems. AI campuses and deep learning workloads use innovations in cooling water systems design that drastically reduce the water use compared to traditional datacenters. Water required by our facilities should be a fraction of a community’s overall water use. As Mayor Weldon Hurt of Abilene, Texas noted,⁠ the water use at the Abilene site in a year will be half as much as Abilene uses in a single day. These designs are used across all of our Stargate AI campuses - including with Oracle in Abilene⁠ and Shackelford County⁠, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico⁠; Saline Township, Michigan⁠, Port Washington, Wisconsin⁠ and our latest AI campus with Microsoft in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.⁠ This approach is paired with site-specific environmental and infrastructure investments developed with local partners. For example, in Wisconsin our partners will invest a minimum of $175M in local infrastructure upgrades and water restoration projects.⁠
• Investing early in local jobs and workforce pathways by establishing OpenAI Academies as the backbone of regional workforce development in Stargate communities. These Academies will be customized for each site, delivering credentials and clear pathways into high-quality jobs aligned with local employers and the region’s evolving AI economy. We will launch our first Stargate community OpenAI Academy in Abilene, Texas this spring. We are also engaging alongside our partners with labor unions and workforce partners to support the skilled trades and technical workforce needed to build and operate AI infrastructure at this scale.

Stargate is a physical infrastructure program that requires deep partnership. We’re reliant on and grateful to the communities that make it possible, and we are committed to showing up as long-term partners.

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