{"id":984471,"date":"2026-01-10T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984471"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:49:55","slug":"openai-softbank-invest-1-billion-in-stargate-partner-sb-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/openai-softbank-invest-1-billion-in-stargate-partner-sb-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI, SoftBank invest $1 billion in Stargate partner SB Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, an infrastructure company that\u2019s working with the tech firms on a massive US buildout of data centers to power artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy to support the energy firm\u2019s growth as a data center developer and operator, the companies said in a statement Friday. OpenAI also said it has selected SB Energy to build and operate its 1.2 gigawatt data center in Milam County, Texas. A single gigawatt is enough to power roughly 750,000 US homes at any given moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, an infrastructure company that\u2019s working with the tech firms on a massive US buildout of data centers to power artificial intelligence. OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy to support the energy firm\u2019s growth as a data center developer and operator, the companies said in a statement Friday. OpenAI also said it has selected SB Energy to build and operate its 1.2 gigawatt data center in Milam County, Texas. A single gigawatt is enough to power roughly 750,000 US homes at any given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}