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,

Texas' growth as a technology and data homebase isn't slowing down anytime soon. This week, three firms announced the development of a massive, $1 billion data center being planned for North Texas.

Joint venture Stargate will be building out data centers and beefing up electricity generation to support the fast-evolving artificial intelligence scene.

Texas will be home to a new joint venture that will make the state ground zero for the development of artificial intelligence in the United States.

President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate Project in Texas to advance AI research, starting with a data center in Abilene.

President Trump announces the $500B Stargate Project, the largest AI infrastructure initiative in U.S. history, set to create 100k jobs and secure America’s AI dominance.

The goal is to kickstart building more data centers to expand computing capacity for current and future AI projects, including OpenAI's goal of "AGI," which the company defines as a highly autonomous AI system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.