Stargate Argentina · Technology infrastructure
Where computing meets energy
With Mat Travizano, I developed the idea behind Stargate Argentina: a proposal linking AI computing capacity with energy infrastructure.
- Role
- Participant in the initiative and announcement meeting
- Period
- Announced October 2025
- Stage
- Announced letter of intent; development proposal
Develop the energy and computing proposition
With Mat Travizano, I developed the idea of connecting Argentina’s energy opportunity with the infrastructure needed for large scale AI computing. The proposition joined an energy location with the electricity, cooling, connectivity and equipment that computing capacity requires.
On 10 October 2025, President Javier Milei and I received an OpenAI delegation led by Chris Lehane at Casa Rosada. Sur Energy announced its plans that day. OpenAI published its account on 14 October, identifying Sur Energy as the energy and infrastructure developer.
The proposed undertaking
The proposal concerns a data center of up to 500 megawatts, with investment of up to US$25 billion at full scale. Those figures describe the announced ambition.
Sur Energy would develop energy and infrastructure and form a consortium with a cloud infrastructure developer. OpenAI described a potential role as a purchaser of computing capacity. Sur Energy’s founders are Mat Travizano, Emiliano Kargieman and Stan Chudnovsky.
- Proposed capacity
- Up to 500 MW
- Proposed full scale investment
- Up to US$25 billion
- Announced stage
- Letter of intent
Status reporting
The announced stage and subsequent reporting
OpenAI and Sur Energy announced a letter of intent to explore the project. OpenAI described a potential role as a purchaser of computing capacity. The announced capacity and investment figures concern the proposal at full scale; implementation requires a complete physical and commercial undertaking.
On 28 May 2026, Buenos Aires Times reported that the project had not been submitted under Argentina’s large investment incentive regime, known as RIGI, at that reporting date. That dated report is separate from the October 2025 announcement and its proposed full scale figures.
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