It's a bitter pill to swallow To Stargate, then: a colossal tech infrastructure project that sounds more like the name of a Pink Floyd album, one of Musk’s own companies or a political scandal involving NASA.
One of Stargate’s backers, SoftBank, has already given $15bn and pledged an additional $500bn investment over the next four years – a figure Musk has disputed on X.
Microsoft, Nvidia and Arm Holdings (owned by SoftBank) are the project’s technology partners, which in courtly terms means Musk has been passed up for Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang.
The company – registered in Delaware, of course – aims to cement the US as the undisputed world leader in AI (beating China), with new, state-of-the-art enterprises starting with a data centre in Abilene, Texas.
For Trump, the goal is simple: to score big early on in his second and final term in office by riding the AI wave, generating “more than 100,000 jobs” from the get go and returning America to its former glory (his words).
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