OpenAI plans to build more data centers in states like Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.

Artificial intelligence developer OpenAI on Thursday announced its list of 16 states, including Utah, that could potentially play host to nodes on a network of massive new data centers, the computing backbone for the privately funded $500 billion Stargate Project announced last month on President Donald Trump’s first full day in office.

OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states t

Initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. Also, Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners.

Sam Altman-led OpenAI is reportedly engaged in intricate discussions to transform into a for-profit entity, but its board is grappling with valuing Microsoft's stake while negotiating the worth of its new charitable division at $30 billion.

Trump called Stargate a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his new administration.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that Texas will be the "flagship" data center site in the Stargate project it is building with SoftBank .

The companies in Stargate, the new consortium to build out AI infrastructure for OpenAI, are actively considering siting new data center projects in more than a dozen states, OpenAI announced Thursday.

OpenAI executives updated reporters on Thursday about the level of interest the company is seeing from states interested in building large data centers.