Stargate, Microsoft’s new $100 billion supercomputer-powered AI datacenter

Using the name ‘Stargate’ from an old 1994 sci-fi movie about the uncovering of an interstellar teleportation device, Microsoft and OpenAI announces their 5-tier plan for creating the largest data centre ever built.

Stargate data centre

With an ambitious 4-year plan to launch the next generation of data centres and AI systems, Microsoft and OpenAI are aiming to launch arrive at the fifth and final stage in 2028. The cost to build such a supercomputer could potentially be over $100 billion. This is more than 100 times the cost of the current largest data centre in operation today.

Goal of Stargate

Microsoft has been pouring quite a lot of money into OpenAI and their ChatGPT already, and this will certainly cement the belief of the company in next generation AI. As an increasing amount of traffic and, more specifically, compute online is driven by AI, more data centres and computational power will be needed for every new iteration of the AI.

This will put pressure on the companies aiming to stay at the forefront of the evolving technology. Our physical world is, as opposed to the digital world, finite and resources are becoming more scarce.