OpenAI Pauses Stargate UK, Pulls Back from Norway — Third Pullback as Key Execs Depart

Summary

OpenAI has now paused or canceled three major Stargate infrastructure commitments in the span of weeks: (1) The UK Stargate data center citing high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty around copyright for AI training data (paused April 9); (2) Stargate Norway — OpenAI abandoned plans to rent compute from a 230MW Narvik facility, with Microsoft taking the capacity instead (confirmed April 15); (3) An 800MW expansion of the flagship Abilene, Texas Stargate campus was also canceled due to finan