Artificial intelligence developer OpenAI on Thursday announced its list of 16 states, including Utah, that could potentially play host to nodes on a network of massive new data centers, the computing backbone for the privately funded $500 billion Stargate Project announced last month on President Donald Trump’s first full day in office.

OpenAI executives updated reporters on Thursday about the level of interest the company is seeing from states interested in building large data centers.

OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states t