Stargate, if it goes forward, is likely to become one of the biggest wastages of capital in history:

1) It hinges on outdated assumptions about the importance of computing scale in AI (the ‘bigger compute = better AI’ dogma), which DeepSeek just proved is wrong.

2) It assumes that the future of AI is with closed and controlled models despite the market’s clear preference for democratized, open-source alternatives

3) It clings to a Cold War playbook, framing AI dominance as a zero-sum hardware arms race, which is really at odds with the direction AI is taking (again, open-source software, global developer communities, and collaborative ecosystems)

4) It bets the farm on OpenAI—a company plagued by governance issues and a business model that’s seriously challenged DeepSeek’s 30x cost advantage.

In short it’s like building a half a trillion dollars digital Maginot line: a very expensive monument to obsolete and misguided assumptions. This is OpenAI and by extension the US fighting the last war.

Last point, there’s also quite a bit of irony in the US government pushing so hard for a technology that’s likely to be so disruptive and potentially so damaging, especially to jobs. I can’t think of any other example in history when a government was so enthused about a project to destroy jobs. You’d think they’d want to be a tad more cautious about this.

https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1882829620967555342?s=61

“If you ever wanna know why I voted for Donald Trump take a look at Western North Carolina. In 4 months, our past administration couldn’t do anything for these people..”

“In 2 days, President Trump has these people being transferred to fully furnished apartments!”

https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1882605657515536585?t=MBQojsTWechmAAAoGcenZw&s=19

 

The United States has been occupied territory by foreign invaders (for decades) hell-bent on destroying the country for their masters (European oligarchs).