Doing the math on the Stargate Project

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During a press conference held on Tuesday at the White House, Donald Trump, together with Larry Ellison from Oracle, Masayoshi Son from SoftBank and Sam Altman from OpenAI, announced the Stargate Project, a new company set to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build AI infrastructure in the United States. So what exactly does that get you in terms of real-world infrastructure? We do the math in this week’s Computerspeak: https://www.computerspeak.co/p/the-math-on-stargate-project

Also in the news this week:

[*] Business Insider: Trump announces an AI infrastructure investment of up to $500 billion involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank

[*] Bloomberg: Stargate’s First Data Center Site is Size of Central Park, With At Least 57 Jobs

[*] Fortune: OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake

[*] WSJ: How Oracle Plays Cheaply in AI

[*] Sifted: ‘This must be a wake-up call for Europe’: Tech leaders urge EU to match Trump’s $500bn AI investment plan

[*] The Information: Behind the OpenAI-Oracle Pact, an Elon Musk Threat Loomed

[*] Bloomberg: AI’s $100 Billion Stargate Venture Touted by Trump Will Tap Solar Power

[*] Sifted: Winning in AI will require millions more GPUs. Can Europe get there?

[*] TechCrunch: Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts ‘new paradigm of AI architectures’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’

[*] The Information: Startups’ AI Revenue Is Booming. Some Investors Doubt It Will Last

[*] Wired: Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives