Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution

The conventional narrative about artificial intelligence is deeply flawed. For years, we’ve been told that AI is "just software"—a clever layer atop the internet stack, maybe a productivity multiplier for office workers, maybe a toy for app developers. But that view is dying in the red clay of Abilene, Texas. AI is not software. AI is the foundation of a new Industrial Revolution. At the center of this transformation is OpenAI's Stargate project: a $500 billion initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and indirectly, President Trump. What they’re building is not a data center. It’s a factory for cognition—an industrial stack designed to produce, distribute, and monopolize artificial intelligence at planetary scale. I. From Cloud to Concrete: The Materialization of AI The first Stargate site in Abilene will span 900 acres, consume 1.2 gigawatts of power, and cost $12 billion to construct—not including the billions in Nvidia GPUs it will house. Developers are building an on-sit ... Read full article.