Yes, that's the name of a 1994 Roland Emmerich movie. It's now a big infrastructure project to help power tech giants' foray into AI.
Donald Trump laughs with Larry Ellison at the White House during the unveiling of the Stargate project on Jan. 21.‘s first full day in office for his second presidential term, he gathered Oracle founder Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son at the Roosevelt Room in the White House to unveil a $500 billion artificial intelligence project named after a 1994 Roland Emmerich sci-fi film about intergalactic portals.
“We have to get this stuff built,” Trump said in his prepared remarks that the president riffed off of, promising 100,000 jobs in the U.S. “So they have to produce a lot of electricity and we’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want, where they’ll build at the plant, the AI plant they’ll build energy generation and that will be incredible.
When Ellison — whom Trump called the “CEO of everything,” perhaps a nod to his involvement in son David’s Skydance deal to take over Paramount Global — took the podium, he added more detail. “The data centers are actually under construction. The first of them are under construction in Texas,” Ellison said. “Each building is a half a million square feet.
The race to build infrastructure domestically is one key component for the industry, and Silicon Valley executives have lobbied Donald Trump to help speed the way to build data centers in the country. “We’re going to make it as easy as it can be,” said the president. “This is money that normally would have gone to China.”
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