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The $500B Stargate Gamble That Could Change Everything
Winners, losers, and the untold stories of the new tech boom.
The AI gold rush is here.
Ten data centers. Half a million square feet each. A $500 billion price tag.
The project has big names behind it:
- OpenAI (Sam Altman)
- SoftBank (Masayoshi Son)
- Oracle (Larry Ellison)
Hundreds of thousands of jobs, they promise. Massive AI breakthroughs, they say. Cancer detection. mRNA vaccines in 48 hours.
But Elon Musk says they don’t have the money. Nadella of Microsoft backs away. Zuckerberg flexes his own data empire.
Big promises. Bigger doubts.
Will Stargate shape the future of AI? Or is this another tech bubble waiting to pop?
The stakes are sky-high. The drama is electric. And the world is watching.
A big risk
The sheer scale is mind-boggling. Ten data centers, each half a million square feet, to start. Then up to 20 if all goes well.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison said the first one is in Abilene, Texas. My first thought was, “That’s a lot of concrete.” My second was, “Why do they need that…
