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Trump, tech titans' $500B AI Stargate Project to kick off in Abilene
.Ronald W. Erdrich
Abilene Reporter-News
12:46 PM CST Jan. 22
Key City will be the first of 20 data centers to power next generation artificial intelligence
Jaws dropped across the Big Country Tuesday night when Abilene was mentioned at the White House as the home of the first data center in a $500 billion artificial intelligence initiative called the Stargate Project.
On his first full day in the White House, President Donald Trump introduced Oracle founder Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a press conference to announce "the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history."
Stargate will be a new American company that Trump said would "almost immediately" create over 100,000 domestic jobs.
"It will ensure the future of technology. We want to keep it in this country," Trump continued, mentioning China and others as leading competitors in the rapidly-expanding industry.
"I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations. They have to produce a lot of electricity, and we'll make it possible for them . . . to get that done, at their own plants if they want," Trump said.
"Beginning immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI," the president said. "This will include the construction of colossal data centers . . . and physical campuses currently being scouted nationwide."
Tump said, "This is to me a very big thing, the $500 billion Stargate Project. I think it's going to be something that's very special. It could lead to something that could be the biggest of all."
Trump then invited Ellison to the podium.
"AI holds incredible promise for all of us," Ellison said, after thanking the president. "We've been working with OpenAI for awhile. The data centers are actually under construction, the first of them are under construction in Texas.
"Each building is half a million square feet. There are 10 buildings currently being built, but that will expand to 20 and other locations beyond the Abilene location, which is our first location."
Trump followed the tech moguls to finish up the press conference before moving on to other topics.
"This is money that would have normally gone to China or other countries. But at the end of my first full day in the White House, we've already secured nearly $3 trillion of investment in the United States," he said, referencing other developments.
The Development Corporation of Abilene released a short statement Tuesday evening, stating, "This $500 billion initiative, with $100 billion deployed immediately, will establish critical AI infrastructure across the United States, starting in Abilene, Texas."
DCOA touted how local leadership will turn the Key City into a key player in the future of AI innovation.
"AI seems to be very hot. It seems to be the thing that a lot of smart people are looking at very strongly" Trump said. "Our country will be prospering like never before. It's going to be the Golden Age of America."
Reporting in TechCrunch, an online publication covering the technology industry, stated that OpenAI was in negotiations to "lease an entire data center in Abilene, Texas — a data center that could could reach nearly a gigawatt of electricity by mid-2026. (A gigawatt is enough to power roughly 750,000 small homes.)"
Crusoe Energy was also mentioned as being involved in Stargate, reported TechCrunch, citing another tech industry publication called The Information.
The company made headlines this fall with their $3.4 billion investment on the Lancium Clean Campus under construction in north Abilene.
Moar at: https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/2025/01/22/trump-tech-titans-500b-ai-stargate-project-to-kick-off-in-abilene-texas-newspaper/77864105007/
or just read from the attached image
Abilene Clean Campus
Lancium
5502 Spinks Rd
79601 Abilene
Texas, USA
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/texas/abilene/abilene-clean-campus/
It's about 6 miles NE of the main gate to Dyess AFB. (B-1 bomber base)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/5502+Spinks+Rd,+Abilene,+TX+79601/@32.4644688,-99.8167781,13.11z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x86568f44a21a83ad:0x4230da4398ada360!8m2!3d32.5014619!4d-99.7891278!16s%2Fg%2F11s36r9zz4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDExNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Learned something new from this article. Abilene is just the first of twenty planned locations across the USA.