OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

Trump said the private sector joint venture will build data centers and create more than 100,000 jobs in the United States.

President Donald Trump is supporting the newly formed Stargate to advance AI as construction on the company's first data center gets underway in Abilene. Trump announced the new entity formed by OpenAI,