Despite its massive scale, Stargate intends to employ “at least” 57 full-time employees earning an average wage of just $57,600 annually, according to documents seen by Bloomberg regarding the ambitious data center project.

About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, according to city documents seen by Bloomberg News. Or

Joint venture Stargate will be building out data centers and beefing up electricity generation to support the fast-evolving artificial intelligence scene.

In a small Texas city nearly 200 miles west of Dallas, the first data center associated with the US$100 billion Stargate venture from OpenAI, SoftBank Group and Oracle is taking shape.

The goal is to kickstart building more data centers to expand computing capacity for current and future AI projects, including OpenAI's goal of "AGI," which the company defines as a highly autonomous AI system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.