OpenAI’s Stargate: A New Golden Age for America

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1) Things Are Getting Better

2) OpenAI’s Stargate: A New Golden Age for America

Yesterday, President Donald Trump stood at the White House alongside Masayoshi Son (SoftBank), Larry Ellison (Oracle), and Sam Altman (OpenAI) to unveil Stargate—a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative poised to redefine America’s technological future.

This is the largest technology infrastructure project ever announced, dwarfing previous AI investments (even Elon Musk’s $6 billion AI infrastructure development). The sheer scale suggests that AI capabilities will advance faster than anyone predicted.

What Is Stargate?

• Total Investment: Up to $500B over four years, with an initial $100B for immediate deployment.

• Infrastructure Focus: Building next-gen data centers across the U.S. for advanced AI workloads.

• Job Creation: Over 100,000 new jobs expected in various regions.

• Leadership & Execution: SoftBank chairs the project and manages financing. OpenAI handles operational strategy and core AI R&D. Oracle, MGX, Arm, Microsoft, and NVIDIA round out the founding technology partners.

Key Goals

1. AI Leadership: Keep the U.S. at the forefront of AI innovation.

2. Economic Growth: Spur a new wave of productivity, attracting capital and talent from around the globe.

3. National Security: Strengthen America’s strategic edge in defense and intelligence.

4. Re-industrialization: Bring high-tech manufacturing and research back to U.S. soil.

Summoning “Alien Intelligence”?

One OpenAI employee, Roone, described Stargate as “blasting a hole into the Platonic ether to summon angels”—a poetic way of saying we could be on the cusp of creating artificial superintelligence with seemingly god-like problem-solving abilities.

What It Means for You

• Adoption Is Critical: The best way to prepare is to use AI to stay informed about current capabilities.

• Stay Flexible: The rate of change will be dizzying, but those who adapt quickly will thrive.

• Remain Optimistic: Although this new era will be chaotic, history suggests that technological leaps ultimately raise living standards.

I’ll discuss Stargate and its broader implications in next week’s episode of The Next Wave with my co-host Matt Wlfe. Buckle up because the future of AI just got dramatically closer—and bigger—than most of us ever imagined.

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