Private Playground Returning president Donald Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-developed AI infrastructure, according to reporting from CBS. Per CBS, the project is a joint venture between ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the Japanese investment group SoftBank, and the software behemoth Oracle, and will see the building of new datacenters — in short, massive, wildly energy-intensive computing facilities — in the US. The first of these facilities, according to the report, will be built somewhere in Texas. The effort is reportedly called "Stargate," because of course it is. More investors are reportedly expected to join the […]