---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI datacenter sites"
description: "OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new Stargate AI datacenter sites, accelerating a $500B, 10-gigawatt U.S. infrastructure buildout to power next-generation AI and create."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "labour_market", "openai"]
timestamp: "2025-09-23"
category: "labour_market"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 72
confidence: 0.9
---

# OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI datacenter sites

# Claim

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new Stargate AI datacenter sites, accelerating a $500B, 10-gigawatt U.S. infrastructure buildout to power next-generation AI and create tens of thousands of jobs.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section five: labour-market and adoption evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a labour-market context signal rather than a single workflow proof point. It helps the thesis track whether adoption, education, wages, and institutional behaviour are moving in the same direction as the capability curve.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: labour_market
* Sector: Financial services
* Capability: Financial workflow automation
* Cope score: 72
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI datacenter sites](https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites)