Donald Trump The medal was hung in his first weeks in the White House when presenting Stargateand infrastructure megaproject in artificial intelligence (AI), even though will not receive public financingbut is supported by private companies: Americans Openai y Oraclethe Japanese SoftBank and the Emirati Mgx. With an initial investment of 100,000 million dollarsthis coalition seeks to develop Data centers and the infrastructure Key to advance in AI models. In the next four years of legislature, that figure could even reach 500,000 million, If they attract more investments private. The negotiations for this project are they forged during the outgoing administration, De Joe Bidenand Trump only formalized his closure with the signing of the agreement.
Stargate, presented as a movement strategic so that EEU CONTROL he advance of artificial intelligence against Chinaalready points to Europa as its next geographical step and Geopolitical. Sam AltmanExecutive Director of Openaihas expressed the interest of replicate the Stargate model In the old continent. The company, which has recently opened offices in Munich, Paris y Brusselshe recently said that he would “love” to carry a Project similar to Europealthough he stressed that it will depend on European countries to decide how to regulate artificial intelligence and what margin of innovation allow their normative frameworks.
This thrust has generated answers in the sector, showing that The US is far from a common front to stand up to China or other international competitors, in a struggle of companies about Who will dominate the AI marketboth within the country and abroad. BlackRock y Microsoft They have launched an investment fund in parallel with an investment of 30,000 million dollars to build data centers and energy projects capable of satisfying the growing demand of the technological sector. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Metahas announced that your company will allocate between 60,000 and 65,000 million dollars In capital infrastructure this year, while reinforcing its AI teams.
Ataques de Musk
However, one of the competitors Openai in Stargate is In the White House. Elon Musknot only leads the newly created Government Efficiency Department (Doge), but also became Trump’s left hand, has publicly questioned the viability of the project. Musk questioned the promise of financing of SoftBanksuggesting that 10,000 million dollars announced would not be enough to meet the needs and criticize the ability of those involved to contribute more money. In addition, he launched attacks against Openai, the company that he co -founded next to Sam Altmanalthough it was discouraged by discrepancies. In response, Altman, backed by Trump, defended the initiative and invited Musk to visit the first center under construction.
Stargate has also generated concerns About the sustainability of the project in the long term and its benefits for local communities. On the one hand, there are doubts about the energy capacity of the country to sustain this colossal project. The Trump administration has proposed to facilitate the construction of at least 10 data centers in Texas through “emergency statements“, which would allow plants to generate their own electricity, and local politicians have warned about the probable shortage of energy supplies due to demand increase. In addition, in terms of the generation of employmentalthough hundreds of thousands of positions will be created for the construction of these data centers, these The works will be lost once the works And the ultimate goal of AI goes through the Task automation.
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