OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states t

The companies in Stargate, the new consortium to build out AI infrastructure for OpenAI, are actively considering siting new data center projects in more than a dozen states, OpenAI announced Thursday.

An executive with the Stargate Project was in Milwaukee on Thursday looking for possible sites for a data center. The Stargate Project is a plan to invest $500 billion in building and powering data center infrastructure to advance artificial intelligence in the United States.