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Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Re: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Post by sillywalk »

Not to be confused by the other (non-fictional) DoD Stargate Project[0], that involved "remote-viewing" and other psychic crap.

The AI Stargate Project claims it will "create hundreds of thousands of American jobs". One has doubts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

Re: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Post by dwnw »

heydenberk wrote: post #29

~$125B per year would be 2-3% of all domestic investment. It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country. If the electric grid — particularly the interconnection queue — is already the bottleneck to data center deployment, is something on this scale even close to possible? If it's a rationalized policy framework (big if!), I would guess there's some major permitting reform announcement coming soon.

Don't worry, they said they are doing it in Texas where the power grid is super reliable and able to handle the massive additional load.

Re: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Post by ignoramous »

> This project will ... also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

> All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop ... AGI for the benefit of all of humanity.

Erm, so which one is it? It is amply demonstrable from events post WW2 that US+allies are quite far from benefiting all of humanity & in fact, in some cases, it assists an allied minority at an extreme cost to a condemned majority, for no discernable humanitarian reasons save for some perceived notion of "shared values".

Re: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Post by nateglims »

jklinger410 wrote: post #28

> starting in Texas Maybe I just don't get it. Texas seems like an awful place to do business.

The white house was touting this so it's probably to secure political patronage or will be part of pork barrel spending to get some other bill passed.

Re: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

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Post by burnte »

non- wrote: post #16

Any clues to how they plan to invest $500 billion dollars? What infrastructure are they planning that will cost that much?

That was literally my question. Is this basically just for more datacenters, NVidia chips, and electricity with a sprinkling of engineers to run it all? If so, then that $500bn should NOT be invested in today's tech, but instead in making more powerful and power efficient chips, IMO.
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