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President Trump announced the Stargate initiative, a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment project jointly led by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, aimed at building large-scale data centers and AI computing infrastructure across the United States. The project represents one of the largest AI infrastructure commitments in history and signals aggressive U.S. government backing for domestic AI development. It raises significant questions about the concentration of AI compute power, governance, and the pace of AI deployment.
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- •$500B Stargate project announced on day one of Trump's second term, with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank as primary partners
- •Initial $100B to be deployed immediately, with remainder committed over four years for U.S.-based AI data centers
- •Project reflects a major shift toward government-industry partnership to accelerate AI capabilities and maintain U.S. competitiveness vs. China
- •Massive compute concentration raises AI safety concerns around oversight, deployment speed, and who controls frontier AI infrastructure
- •SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Oracle's Larry Ellison appeared alongside Trump at the announcement
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OpenAI and SoftBank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company
‘The Stargate Project’ is starting its buildout in Texas, with participation from Oracle, MGX, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm.
‘The Stargate Project’ is starting its buildout in Texas, with participation from Oracle, MGX, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm.
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is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project. Their companies, SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle (respectively), along with MGX are listed as “initial equity funders” for $500 billion in investments over the next four years, “building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.”
According to a statement from OpenAI , “Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI” are the initial tech partners, with a buildout “currently underway” starting in Texas as other sites across the country are evaluated. It also says that “Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system.”
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