LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The AI data center planned as part of the Stargate Project’s artificial intelligence-focused hub in Lordstown will not be a massive facility, unlike many Stargate data centers across the country, according to a SoftBank spokesperson.

“The advanced data center will use a small part of the existing footprint at the Lordstown site," the spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.

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

The data center’s smaller scale decreases the demand it would be exp

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