# United States — NAIRR · sovereign AI programme Sovereign programme record · United States · 2024 ## United States: ~$2.60B announced · disbursement not on record # United States: NAIRR / CHIPS Act AI Components / Stargate Project - Announced~$2.60B - Government funding$30M - Committed$30M - Disbursed— No disbursed dollar amount on record. Funding stages share a dollar scale. A hatched track marks an absent figure and gives its reason. Tildes mark estimated figures. Cite **Operating compute / delivered hardware**. Reported operational or delivered: 84 NVIDIA H100 SXM (physical hardware); 136 NVIDIA H100 (physical hardware). ### Hardware on record
ModelCountStatusOrganisation / role
GPU model unverified—UnverifiedPurdue Anvil attribution unverified
NVIDIA H100 SXM84OperationalNSF (Purdue Anvil)

Physical hardware: Anvil AI’s H100 expansion: 21 servers with four GPUs each. Primary source · 2025-08-22

NVIDIA H100136OperationalNSF (SDSC Expanse)

Physical hardware: Expanse AI’s H100 partition: 34 servers with four GPUs each. Primary source

#### Empanelled partners · 24
PartnerAcceleratorsModelStageSource
Microsoft——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

$20M in Azure computing credits.

NVIDIA—NVIDIA DGXEmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

$24M in DGX Cloud access within $30M of overall support.

Amazon Web Services——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

AWS credits for at least 20 research projects.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Anthropic——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Claude API access for 10 climate researchers.

  • Programme-level disclosure
OpenAI——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Up to $1M in research model-access credits and up to $250K in model access or ChatGPT accounts for HBCUs and minority-serving institutions.

Google——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Colab licences, Kaggle resources, and a Data Commons instance.

  • Programme-level disclosure
IBM——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

AI-safety benchmarks, datasets, foundation models, and technical expertise.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Meta——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Llama research support under the applicable model licences.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Intel——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Training on hardware and software optimisation.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Groq——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

GroqCloud inference access for 10 teams.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Cerebras——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Access to Cerebras systems, datasets, models, and technical expertise.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Hugging Face——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Compute grants for Spaces and model-evaluation support.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Databricks——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Data Intelligence Platform access for research analysis.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Palantir——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Foundry and AIP support through NAIRR Secure’s NIH partnership.

  • Programme-level disclosure
SambaNova Systems——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Hosted model fine-tuning and technical support.

  • Programme-level disclosure
EleutherAI——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

GPU hours and support for foundation-model research.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Allen Institute for AI——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Open models, training data, and evaluation tools.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Weights & Biases——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

Academic software licences and technical support.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Omidyar Network——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2024-01-24

$500,000 for pilot infrastructure and staff support, plus workshops and proposal calls.

  • Programme-level disclosure
OpenAI——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-01-21

OpenAI has operational responsibility for Stargate under the January 2025 launch announcement.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
SoftBank Group——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-01-21

SoftBank has financial responsibility for Stargate under the January 2025 launch announcement.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
Oracle——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-01-21

Oracle is an initial equity funder and technology partner in the January 2025 Stargate announcement.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
MGX——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-01-21

MGX is an initial equity funder in the January 2025 Stargate announcement.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
Natcast——EmpanelledPrimary source · 2025-01-16

NIST announced its agreement with Natcast to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center on 16 January 2025.

  • Programme-level disclosure
### External dependence NVIDIA hardware: High · US technology: Low. These are editorial assessments based on the programme’s procurement disclosures. Named partners: NSF, DOE, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Amazon, Meta. NAIRR gives researchers access to university and federal computing facilities, commercial cloud services, and AI tools. The $2.6B figure comes from the task force’s six-year cost estimate; the FY2026 appropriations agreement provides $30M for the pilot. Private Stargate investments and CHIPS semiconductor funding are separate from this research-access programme. ### Data-quality caveats on this record · 6 - The $30M is FY2026 funding for the NAIRR pilot. The cited appropriations agreement reports no amount paid out, so disbursement is unknown. - The NAIRR task force estimated a six-year cost of approximately $2.6B in January 2023. Comparing one year’s pilot funding with that estimate does not measure completion of the full programme. - CSET estimated 3.77 exaFLOPS for the pilot’s first six computing resources under full hardware utilisation. Researchers receive time-limited allocations on those systems; the estimate is neither dedicated year-round capacity nor a current inventory. - OpenAI’s January 2025 Stargate announcement proposed $500B of private investment over four years in US AI infrastructure. CHIPS funding supports semiconductor manufacturing and research; neither amount is included in NAIRR’s government funding here. - OpenAI reported a 1 June 2026 groundbreaking for The Barn, its 1 GW Stargate campus in Saline, Michigan. Related Digital identifies project financing from private equity and debt. - The 208-GH200 allocation previously attributed to Purdue Anvil is unverified. Purdue’s NAIRR guide identifies A100 and H100 resources. ### The evidence trail 16 cited sources - [CNBC reporting on the June 2026 Michigan Stargate groundbreaking.](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/stargate-project-michigan-live-updates.html) — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-07-14 - [NSF’s NAIRR overview and partner contributions.](https://www.nsf.gov/focus-areas/ai/nairr) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07 - [NAIRR Pilot programme and research projects.](https://nairrpilot.org/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28 - [CSET’s estimate of the pilot’s first six computing resources, including allocation-time limits.](https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-nairr-pilot-estimating-compute/) — Research database · accessed 2026-03-28 - [Federal Budget IQ’s account of FY2026 CJS appropriations, including $30M for NAIRR.](https://federalbudgetiq.com/insights/fy26-appropriations-tech-funding-in-commerce-justice-and-science-bill/) — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28 - [Text of H.R.2385, the CREATE AI Act, in the 119th Congress.](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2385/text) — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28 - [Department of Energy computing resources available through NAIRR.](https://nairratdoe.ornl.gov/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28 - [NAIRR task force’s January 2023 six-year cost estimate; budget table, printed page 48.](https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-10/NAIRR-TF-Final-Report-2023.pdf) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [FY2026 appropriations agreement providing $30M for NAIRR; Congressional Record H265.](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2026-01-08/pdf/CREC-2026-01-08-bk3.pdf) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [OpenAI’s January 2025 announcement of private Stargate investment in the United States.](https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [OpenAI’s June 2026 report of the Michigan Stargate groundbreaking.](https://openai.com/index/stargate-michigan-data-center/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Related Digital’s June 2026 account of the Michigan project’s private equity and debt financing.](https://www.related-digital.com/news/related-digital-blackstone-oracle-openai-walbridge-and-governor-whitmer-celebrate-construction-of-stargate-campus-in-saline-township) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [NIST’s January 2025 announcement of its agreement with Natcast to operate the NSTC.](https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/01/department-commerce-finalizes-long-term-partnership-natcast-operate) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Purdue’s NAIRR access guide identifies Anvil’s A100 and H100 resources.](https://docs.rcac.purdue.edu/userguides/anvil/access/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Purdue, 22 August 2025: Anvil AI’s 21 servers with four H100 SXM GPUs each.](https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/7345) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [SDSC’s Expanse guide: the Expanse AI partition has 34 servers with four H100 GPUs each.](https://www.sdsc.edu/systems/expanse/user_guide.html) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 Machine access The same record, machine-readable: the [evidence-trail feed](https://scrutica.com/sovereign-ai/program/sovereign-us/feed.xml) and the [derivation-chain export](https://scrutica.com/api/sovereign-programs/derivation-chain/us).