The former GM plant in Lordstown is taking on a growing role in the Stargate Project, a $500 billion effort from OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States.

In addition to SoftBank and Foxconn’s plans to create an AI server manufacturing hub at the facility, OpenAI announced Tuesday it will partner with SoftBank to build a data center at the site — one of five new data centers the two companies are building across the country.

“AI data centers are basically like the brains that help artificial intelligence do their work,” explained OhioX CEO Chris Berry in an interview with 21 News. “They're the ones that are able to help with the large language models, the LLMs, that OpenAI and companies like that use to make artificial intelligence

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