Trump Hosts Tech Titans at Press Conference Linking Energy and AI
'Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI,' Trump said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2025 – President Donald Trump on Tuesday linked his energy-focused executive orders to advances in artificial intelligence and data centers, hosting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a White House press conference on his first full day in office.
Joined by billionaires Larry Ellison of Oracle fame and and Softbank's Masayoshi Son, Trump played up OpenAI's plans for project dubbed Stargate, a partnership touted as bringing between $100 billion and $500 billion into AI infrastructure and data centers.
“I’m going to help a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency," Trump said. "We have to get this stuff built. So they have to produce a lot of electricity and we’ll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want, where they’ll build at the plant, the A.I. plant, they’ll build energy generation.”
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