Stargate turns AI into a power-and-steel story

Stargate turns AI into a power-and-steel story

The $500 billion Stargate LLC joint venture — OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX — has definitively shifted artificial intelligence from a software development paradigm to heavy industrial manufacturing. Its target is 10 gigawatts of compute capacity by 2029, with a 1.2GW facility in Abilene, Texas, as the flagship in a wider national rollout. Meanwhile, the U.S. has shown it can act as the “off switch” for frontier intelligence by temporarily delaying the global deployment of Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models through export and regulatory controls.

Gobble's Take: AI is no longer just a product race; it’s a capacity race with government veto power baked in. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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