The president of the United States, Donald Trump, acted as master of ceremonies to present a private sector investment project in up to 500 billion dollars (480,000 million euros) to finance artificial intelligence infrastructures. The creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI; the japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank; and the technological Oracle They will create a joint company called Stargate. The new company will build 20 data centers in the United States and will promote the creation of 100,000 jobs, according to the president himself.
Trump’s presence is no coincidence: the directors of the three companies have assured that the Republican’s victory last November has been key to the announcement. “We wouldn’t have decided to do this unless you had won,” Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, told the American president. The three companies together with other investors have already They have committed 100 billion dollars ($96 billion) for this year. “The first of the project’s data centers is already under construction in Texas,” said Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. The rest of the investment will be disbursed over the next four years.
Donald Trump’s passion for technopreneurs
The American president’s presentation of this new business adventure is no coincidence. The Republican president has surrounded himself with a court of technology patrons from the corporate world of Silicon Valley. Many of these executives were at his inauguration and one of them has been his main benefactor during the election campaign: Elon Musk.
Trump has maintained rhetoric in favor of technology companies with promises of deregulation and low taxes. As soon as he arrived at the White House on Friday, he signed a presidential order that withdrew the United States from the international agreement on a 15% minimum tax on companies promoted by the OECD.
This commitment to technology has led the president to extend the ban on TikTok on US soil and look for North American businessmen willing to buy the social network. In the same presentation he said that he welcomes the fact that Ellison or Musk join the United States in acquiring the platform. “What I’m thinking is to tell someone to buy it and give half to the United States; half, and we will give them permission, and they will have a great partner,” said the American president.
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