OpenAI and Oracle are behind the massive data center campus in Port Washington, a Wednesday statement from Vantage Data Centers confirmed.
Vantage Data Centers, which was previously the only known company behind the project, had originally said it would spend $8 billion on the development. The companies’ latest announcement said they plan to invest more than $15 billion at the new campus, which will include four data center buildings.
OpenAI is the company behind ChatGPT; Oracle is a software and cloud computing company. The Port Washington location is part of the companies’ Stargate program, a $500 billion push to expand artificial intelligence capacity across the nation. That initiative was announced in January by President Donald Trump.
OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Port Washington joins sites in Texas and New Mexico as part of the Stargate program. It is the only Midwest site in the program. The tech giants recently agreed to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional power capacity for the initiative, according to a July news post from OpenAI.
Wednesday’s announcement said the data center campus in Port Washington, named “Lighthouse,” could create more than 4,000 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. Construction on the data center buildings will start soon and could be complete in 2028, according to Vantage.