As OpenAI launches $500B “Stargate” project, critics express skepticism
On Tuesday, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced plans to form Stargate, a new company that will invest $500 billion in AI computing infrastructure across the United States over four years. The announcement came during a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, who called it the "largest AI infrastructure project in history."
However, the origins of the Stargate project extend back to 2024, prior to Trump beginning his second term in office, and skeptics have begun to take aim at the numbers announced.
OpenAI says the goal of Stargate is to kickstart building more data centers to expand computing capacity for current and future AI projects, including OpenAI's goal of "AGI," which the company defines as a highly autonomous AI system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work."