Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
News ClipCNBC·Abilene, TX·3/9/2026
Oracle is building a data center in Abilene, Texas to support OpenAI, but OpenAI has decided to end its plans to expand at this site due to a desire for newer Nvidia GPUs. The current Abilene data center is expected to use older Nvidia Blackwell processors, while OpenAI wants access to Nvidia's next-generation chips in bigger clusters elsewhere. This highlights the challenge infrastructure companies face in keeping up with the rapid pace of AI hardware improvements.
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Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle's debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is no longer planning to expand its partnership with Oracle in Abilene, Texas, home to the Stargat