# Stargate Project **Entity class:** Program or project **Domain:** AI Infrastructure / Data Centers / Energy **Doc Type:** Program Node **Maturity:** Developed **Primary Article:** [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]] ## Definition **The Stargate Project is an American AI-infrastructure program announced in January 2025 with an intended investment of $500 billion over four years.** Its initial equity funders were SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX; SoftBank held financial responsibility, OpenAI held operational responsibility, and Masayoshi Son was named chairman. The initial technology partners were Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI. ## Texas Geography The buildout began in Texas. OpenAI identifies Abilene as the flagship operating campus and later announced additional development in Shackelford County and Milam County. The Milam County site is being developed with SB Energy, which OpenAI selected to build and operate a 1.2-gigawatt data-center site while planning associated energy generation and storage. The entity route is [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] as operational lead, [[wiki/SoftBank|SoftBank]] as financial lead, [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]] as equity funder and technology partner, and [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] as the Milam County development and energy partner. [[wiki/Larry Ellison|Larry Ellison]] and Masayoshi Son remain person-level nodes distinct from their companies and from the joint program. This makes Stargate a principal physical layer of the [[wiki/Computational-Civic Biome|computational-civic biome]] described in [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]]. The program joins capital, cloud operations, accelerators, land, power, construction, and community infrastructure in a form that can be mapped geographically rather than inferred only from software products. ## Dual Collection Position Within [[collections/US-Israel Leadership Alliance|US–Israel Leadership Alliance]], the article places Stargate in the wider Pax Silica platform that connects American compute scale with Israeli security and technology capacity. Within [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]], Stargate is an instance of [[wiki/Substrate Repatriation|substrate repatriation]] and [[wiki/Substrate Determinism|substrate determinism]]: strategic computation depends on power, chips, networking, cooling, data centers, operating authority, and jurisdiction as a combined physical system. ## Relationship to Genesis Mission The article interprets Stargate's private infrastructure and the federal [[wiki/DOE Genesis Mission|DOE Genesis Mission]] as complementary layers. That relationship is architectural unless a specific program interface, contract, dataset transfer, or shared authority is documented. Similar objectives and temporal adjacency do not establish organizational identity. ## Name Collision and Historical Context The AI-infrastructure project shares its name with the declassified U.S. intelligence remote-viewing program conducted through SRI and SAIC and carried under “Stargate” from 1991 to 1995. The shared name is established; the reason for the 2025 naming remains unresolved. [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]] carries the resonance as a research question and keeps the two programs institutionally distinct. ## Evidence Ledger ### Established - Official announcements identify the 2025 project's funders, partner roles, intended investment, sites, and planned capacities. - The CIA Reading Room preserves the earlier intelligence program's records. - The two programs have different organizations, dates, objectives, and operating structures. ### Strongly indicated - The AI project is a strategic physical substrate joining capital, energy, chips, networking, and data-center capacity. ### Plausible - Its public name may deliberately evoke an earlier U.S. intelligence program concerned with information acquisition beyond ordinary perception. ### Unresolved - The naming intent. A naming memorandum or attributable statement can promote the connection; evidence of an independent naming process can demote it. Capacity figures remain plans until an official source identifies delivered or operating systems. ## See Also [[wiki/Computational-Civic Biome|Computational-Civic Biome]] · [[wiki/Data Center|Data Center]] · [[wiki/Hyperscale Data Center|Hyperscale Data Center]] · [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] · [[wiki/DOE Genesis Mission|DOE Genesis Mission]] · [[wiki/Pax Silica|Pax Silica]] · [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] · [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]] · [[wiki/Larry Ellison|Larry Ellison]] · [[wiki/SoftBank|SoftBank]] · [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] ## Sources / Provenance - OpenAI and SoftBank, [“Announcing The Stargate Project”](https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/), January 21, 2025. - OpenAI, [“OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites”](https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/), September 23, 2025. - OpenAI, [“OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy”](https://openai.com/index/stargate-sb-energy-partnership/), January 9, 2026. - [[articles/Pax Silica's Crown Jewel|Pax Silica's Crown Jewel]] — source of the dual-collection and Texas interpretation. ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]], and [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Funding, business, and licensing - **Stargate Project** funded [[wiki/SoftBank|SoftBank]]. - **Stargate Project** funded [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]. - **Stargate Project** funded [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]. - **Stargate Project** funded [[wiki/MGX|MGX]]. ### Technology and research relationships - **Stargate Project** has as a technology partner [[wiki/Arm|Arm]]. - **Stargate Project** has as a technology partner [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]]. - **Stargate Project** has as a technology partner [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]]. - **Stargate Project** has as a technology partner [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]. - **Stargate Project** has as a technology partner [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]. ### Key Relationships - **Stargate Project** is associated with $500 billion investment over four years. - **Stargate Project** is associated with 10 GW by 2029. - **Stargate Project** is associated with strategic capability / U.S. reindustrialization. - **Stargate Project** is associated with surpassed 10 GW U.S. infrastructure milestone. Current-state correction to source article’s earlier 7-GW/on-track snapshot. - **Stargate Project** is associated with more than 3 GW. - The source corpus interprets the relationship this way: [[wiki/compute-energy-territory|compute-energy-territory]] is associated with **Stargate Project**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] is associated with **Stargate Project**. - [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] is associated with **Stargate Project**. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> - **Name-distinct predecessor:** [CIA Stargate Collection](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate). - **Contemporary state layer:** [[wiki/Genesis Mission|Genesis Mission]] and [[wiki/Pax Silica|Pax Silica]]. - **Historical method:** [[wiki/Coordination Ladder|Coordination Ladder]]. - **Source route:** [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]]. ## Read First in the Wiki <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]] — supplies the related organization or institution context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]] — supplies the related organization or institution context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] — supplies the related organization or institution context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Data Center|Data Center]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Hyperscale Data Center|Hyperscale Data Center]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Stargate Project** within the wider system. <!-- END HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **Host-infrastructure crosswalk** provides the narrative context for **Stargate Project**: Finally, UALink, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, DMTF Redfish, CXL, 800 VDC AI data-center power, Maia 200, BlueField-4, and BlueField-4 STX expose the receiving substrate as an interoperable stack of fabrics, management planes,… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Research Edges <!-- BEGIN INTERFACE SOFT SOVEREIGNTY RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Interface and soft-sovereignty graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]] · [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 402 — `funder` → [[wiki/SoftBank|SoftBank]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 403 — `funder` → [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 404 — `funder` → [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 405 — `funder` → [[wiki/MGX|MGX]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 409 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Arm|Arm]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 410 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 411 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 412 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 413 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 414 — `initial_target` → $500 billion investment over four years** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 415 — `initial_US_capacity_target` → 10 GW by 2029** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 416 — `national_security_frame` → strategic capability / U.S. reindustrialization** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 417 — `capacity_status_2026-04-29` → surpassed 10 GW U.S. infrastructure milestone** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2026`. Current-state correction to source article’s earlier 7-GW/on-track snapshot. - **Edge 418 — `capacity_added_in_prior_90_days_2026-04-29` → more than 3 GW** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2026`. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 448 — [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] `strategic_relationship` → this entry** — **CORPUS_V**; evidence `CORPUS_NEXT`. The article connects Milam buildout and OpenAI/SoftBank investments; do not imply every SB Energy asset is Stargate. - **Edge 574 — [[wiki/compute-energy-territory|compute-energy-territory]] `exemplar` → this entry** — **CORPUS_I**; evidence `CORPUS_NEXT`. - **Edge 593 — [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] `undocumented_integration_query` → this entry** — **UNRESOLVED — DO NOT PROMOTE**; evidence `CORPUS_MAGIC`, `CORPUS_NEXT`. Preserve as research question; do not transform into claim. <!-- END INTERFACE SOFT SOVEREIGNTY RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 485 — `funder` → [[wiki/SoftBank|SoftBank]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 486 — `funder` → [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 487 — `funder` → [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 488 — `funder` → [[wiki/MGX|MGX]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 490 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Arm|Arm]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 491 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 492 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 493 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/Oracle|Oracle]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 494 — `technology_partner` → [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 495 — `initial_target` → $500 billion investment over four years** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 496 — `initial_US_capacity_target` → 10 GW by 2029** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 497 — `national_security_frame` → strategic capability / U.S. reindustrialization** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2025`. - **Edge 498 — `capacity_status_2026-04-29` → surpassed 10 GW U.S. infrastructure milestone** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2026`. Current-state correction to source article’s earlier 7-GW/on-track snapshot. - **Edge 499 — `capacity_added_in_prior_90_days_2026-04-29` → more than 3 GW** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_VERIFIED**; evidence `OPENAI_STARGATE_2026`. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 522 — [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] `strategic_relationship` → this entry** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_CORPUS_V**; evidence `CORPUS_NEXT`. The article connects Milam buildout and OpenAI/SoftBank investments; do not imply every SB Energy asset is Stargate. - **Edge 597 — [[wiki/compute-energy-territory|compute-energy-territory]] `exemplar` → this entry** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_CORPUS_I**; evidence `CORPUS_NEXT`. - **Edge 607 — [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]] `undocumented_integration_query` → this entry** — **PRIOR_INTERFACE_UNRESOLVED**; evidence `CORPUS_MAGIC`, `CORPUS_NEXT`. Preserve as research question; do not transform into claim. <!-- END CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-1066 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1067 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Data Center|Data Center]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1068 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Hyperscale Data Center|Hyperscale Data Center]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1069 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1070 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1071 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. - **HR-1072 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Stargate Project.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0780 — [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Microsoft.md`. - **HR-0802 — [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `NVIDIA.md`. - **HR-0860 — [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `OpenAI.md`. - **HR-1047 — [[wiki/SB Energy|SB Energy]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `SB Energy.md`. <!-- END HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 -->