Amid controversial, polemic and even unconstitutional measures, the new US President Donald Trump took office in that Monday (January 20, 2025) making “noise” with their proposals. The ton of revocations, changes and decrees ended up hiding a strategic bet (and welcome) promoted by Trump: he announced the next day, the investment of up to U$500 billion dollars in Artificial Intelligence.
The measure was already expected (and was even anticipated by CBS News), but it was surprising due to the large amount and the format of the investment.
Next to the OpenAI CEOs (owner of ChatGPT), Sam Altman, Softbank (Masayoshi Son) and Oracle (Larry Ellison), Trump announced the investment through a partnership with such companies entitled Stargate. The focus of this entity, initially, will be the construction of projects for the development and maintenance of AI, located in the state of Texas.
Stargate will have for aim to solve the main challenges and obstacles to the development of AIs: meet enormous computational demands, resolve the shortage of raw materials and inputs, and find new sources of electrical energy needed for expansions.
The massive construction of data centers and power plants has never been more necessary for the Artificial Intelligence race. According to Stargate, such projects are already underway in Texas.
In the partnership, the Softbank and OpenAI will be the protagonists, with Softbank responsible for the financial side and OpenAI for the operations. MGX will be a fourth equity investor, and other technology giants (Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle) join as technology partners.
The expansion of artificial intelligence American means, of course, massive increase in productivity and operational efficiency; this at a crucial moment in technological development, where the US and China compete for leadership in the sector. Stargate even announced the creation of up to 100,000 jobs, dispelling rumors that AI would eliminate countless human jobs.
Presidential and private sector support in the face of this technology reinforce once again their protagonism and importance in society as a whole – applications in the fields of medicine, biomedicine, security, energy, among others; are increasingly larger and more important for the development of nations.
The presence of billionaires and technology CEOs in Donald Trump's inauguration event (Mark Zuckerberg of Goal, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Elon Musk of Tesla, X and SpaceX, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai, from Google) confirms the position of this government with strong alignment with the private and technological sector.
Although, from an AI regulatory perspective, Trump have also revoked an executive order previously signed by Joe Biden in 2023 that created safety standards for AI-generated content, among other points; the announcement of the investment, and of Stargate itself, mark an important step in support for innovation and technological development.
In fact, the Artificial Intelligence cannot be developed without regulation and/or institutional control; but also technical obstacles, lack of infrastructure and lack of knowledge should not hinder innovation, progress and the positive potential that this technology has to offer. Among so many controversies and controversial measures, perhaps this partnership/investment is one of the most interesting measures promoted by Trump – time will tell.
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