On January 22, 2025, President Donald Trump unveiled a $500 billion joint venture involving OpenAI, Softbank, MGX, and Oracle to build advanced datacenters for AI in the U.S. This initiative aims to enhance national competitiveness, with Trump highlighting the need to maintain AI development within American borders due to competition from China. The construction will utilize advanced chips for training AI systems, with funding from both domestic and foreign sources. Trump's endorsement aligns with ongoing efforts by tech leaders to accelerate AI infrastructure development in the U.S.
We want to keep it in this country; China's a competitor, Trump said of AI. I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations.
The intent is to build datacenters on American soil, so that the U.S. retains sovereignty over the AI models that are created and run there.
Altman has argued more vocally in recent months that the U.S. must race to build the energy and datacenter infrastructure in order to create powerful AI before China.
OpenAI and Oracle have been working on building out datacenter capacity in the United States since long before Trump's inauguration.
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