The Great AI Mirage: Stargate’s Shady Collapse & Power Struggles đŸ€–đŸ”„

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In the cold, relentless march of progress, a new report claims the starry-eyed dreamers at Softbank and OpenAI are wrestling over a dilapidated, half-built monument of ambition. The grand Stargate, once a shimmering beacon of hope for AI domination, now appears to be shrinking faster than your savings during inflation. And all the while, the power-hungry players are bickering about data centers and funding like children fighting over candy—except this candy might just blow up the world.

WSJ Report Sources Say Stargate Is Shrinking

OpenAI’s Stargate project—a massive, sprawling AI infrastructure venture backed by the usual suspects: OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle, and MGX—was announced with all the fanfare of a presidential campaign in January 2025. The plan? Spend up to $500 billion over four years building shiny new data centers across the U.S. to tame the AI beast. Sounds like a sci-fi dream, right? Well, buckle up, because recent reports from the Wall Street Journal suggest that the dream might be more of a nightmare.

Despite throwing around a hundred billion like candy at a parade, insiders say the project has been reduced to a sad, single data center in Ohio—less “Star Gate” and more “Star Gape.” The big bucks—$30 billion from Softbank—are now just emotional IOUs, as disputes grind the project to a halt, with no real data centers under the Stargate banner. It’s almost poetic—ambition curtailed by stubbornness and a lack of funds. Who would’ve guessed?

Meanwhile, Sam Altman, the ever-optimistic founder of OpenAI, has decided to march alone, securing massive data center deals—like a $30 billion-a-year agreement with Oracle to squeeze 4.5 gigawatts of power out of the grid—completely ignoring the Softbank nonsense. Because, what’s a little corporate chaos when you’re trying to power the future of AI? These plans apparently burn more juice than two Hoover Dams—probably more than most governments have in their entire energy reserves.

Elon Musk didn’t hold back, calling the Stargate scheme a house of cards built on shaky money—“They don’t actually have the cash,” he declared, pouring a barrel of skepticism on the whole operation. Musk’s authority-checked statement? SoftBank’s pockets are shallower than a puddle, with less than $10 billion secured for the grand vision. Such honesty, delivered like a punch—no wonder the project’s sputtering.

Meanwhile, OpenAI’s partnerships with firms like Coreweave have already hit their 2025 goals—while some facilities in Texas, boldly labeled “Stargate,” are popping up like weeds, with no visible funding or coherent plan. When Musk called out the project, Altman shot back on X (Twitter’s new name for chaos), inviting Musk to check out Texas—the site of the ongoing construction, a monument to hubris.

What’s really unraveling here? The big dream of uniting American AI innovation looks more like a patchwork of alliances—fractured, stubborn, and fighting over the reins of future power—a classic story of empire-building, but with less clarity and more chaos. As the titans clash, the real question is: who will control the AI empire, and who will get left behind? Because, in this game, the dream of unity is just a fancy excuse for a scramble for supremacy, with a lot of money and egos at stake. đŸš€đŸ’„

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2025-07-23 00:57