Project was in the works long time before the election. The announcement was a political stunt to try and flatter donny boy OpenAI and other tech titans worked on Stargate deal months before Trump won The $100 billion artificial intelligence deal that escalated a feud between Donald Trump adviser Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in the works for months before President Trump’s election victory — undermining tech titans’ declarations that the venture was only possible because of Trump’s inauguration. Altman has been discussing plans for a $100 billion venture, called “Stargate,” since at least March, 10 months before Trump returned to the White House, OpenAI spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois confirmed. OpenAI and Oracle finalized a partnership to build at least one of the data centers that is part of Stargate in Texas in June, according to company announcements, and construction began over the summer. The $100 billion that the companies committed to invest on Tuesday is not all new funding. Money that was already spent on the ongoing construction of the 10-building data center campus in Abilene, Texas, is being counted in the figure that the companies trumpeted in the White House Roosevelt Room on Tuesday, Bourgeois said. ........................................... The companies’ decision to unveil the project at a West Wing news conference highlights how business leaders have mounted an aggressive charm offensive with Trump as he returns to the White House, in part through splashy investment announcements that Trump has touted in news conferences as a sign that his agenda is already reshaping the economy. But such announcements aren’t without political risks, as OpenAI learned when Musk criticized the deal on the social network he owns, X.
What I don't understand is why anyone in the government would want to take credit for assisting in funding a huge data collection center
If the democrats were any good at politics instead of saying "oh we helped too" they'd be saying Trump and his billionaire cronies are spending millions to collect all your data
April 2024 Microsoft Stargate: The Next AI Platform Will Be An Entire Cloud Region The report on the Stargate effort, which was reported by The Information as the Easter holiday was starting last Friday, is consistent with the scalability goal of 1 million interconnected endpoints that the Ultra Ethernet Consortium – of which Microsoft is a founding member – has set for future Ethernet networks. jobs??
