To Win A.I., Go Nuclear

Last week, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced Stargate, a massive data center to power artificial intelligence. It promises to be one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in American history. With a price tag as high as half a trillion dollars, it might also be the biggest data center the world has ever seen. Standing in the White House with President Donald Trump and with his counterparts from Oracle and Softbank, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that Stargate “will be the most important project of this era.” Echoing the president’s inaugural address, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son added: “This is the beginning of a golden age.”