As OpenAI drops out of datacentre project at Texas, Microsoft moves in; CEO of data center developer Crusoe says: This will be …

Microsoft is reportedly taking over a data centre construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it. This will make the two companies neighbours at one of the country’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) hubs. The project, located in Abilene, Texas, is being developed by data centre company Crusoe, which has now confirmed that it is working with the company that was once the exclusive cloud computing provider and still holds a roughly 27% stake in ChatGPT-maker. However, both companies have been increasingly pursuing AI development separately, even as they occupy the same tract of land. The announcement comes after OpenAI said that it had dropped plans to expand its Abilene project further earlier this month.