Signal Stargate commits 500 billion dollars and data-centre power use is set to nearly triple

Summary

The plan offers two quantified markers of the AI infrastructure race. First, it records that the Stargate project, announced immediately after President Trump took office, plans investment of 500 billion dollars through 2029. Second, it cites a Gartner projection that electricity consumption by data centres will nearly triple over the next five years. The plan reads this projection as raising the urgency of the shift to renewable energy and of securing stable energy supply. It also points out that the siting of data centres is becoming a geopolitical question in its own right.