New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- Six gigawatts on order, a penny warrant in hand, and a race to switch on a one gigawatt campus in 2026.

San Francisco -OpenAI has signed a multiyear pact to buy enough chips to power six gigawatts of computing, a scale more often associated with national electric grids than with any single company's servers. The agreement binds the most visible developer of generative artificial intelligence to a new wave of accelerators and, through a warrant, gives the buyer a potential minority position in its supplier. The first tranche of hardware is slated to arrive in the second half of 2026, when OpenAI begins building a one gigawatt site that will run on the MI450 series, according to the companies.

The deal moves two numbe...