> OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years

>The deal is one of the largest cloud contracts ever signed

>The Oracle contract will require 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, roughly comparable to the electricity produced by more than two Hoover Dams or the amount consumed by about four million homes.

And where is all of this data center capacity going to come from?

They are building out a new data center in Texas. Bloomberg did a mini documentary a few months ago about it.

https://youtu.be/GhIJs4zbH0o

If someone wondering - that's about $675m worth of solar panels

4x if you add the rest of hardware, batteries, labour.