OpenAI: upcoming dates

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• Infrastructure09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Stargate Milam County 'Freebird' Phase 1 Data Center Due for Completion

  County Road 133, Burlington, Milam County, Texas 76519, USASB Energy

  

  Starts 10/15/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 13 daysScheduled: the Texas^[1] Department of Licensing and Regulation filing lists "Completion Date: October 15, 2026" (start 20 Oct 2025); a filed date, not a confirmed handover.

  Phase 1 of the SB Energy and OpenAI Freebird campus, a 548,950 sq ft, four-data-hall building in Burlington, Texas, has a filed completion date of 15 October 2026 and an estimated cost of $470 million.

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• AI09/20/2026@TechDesk

  OpenAI Retires 17 Legacy GPT Model Snapshots

  San Francisco, California, United StatesOpenAI

  

  Starts 10/23/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins80% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 80%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 21 daysOpenAI's^[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-04-22, gives the shutdown date as 23 October 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.

  OpenAI switches off 17 models and endpoints on 23 October 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, gpt-4-0613, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1-2024-12-17, o1-pro-2025-03-19, o3-mini-2025-01-31, ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16, o4-mini-2025-04-16 and 5 more.

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