A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.

Stargate "will be the most important project of this era,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday alongside Trump.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to Elon Musk buying TikTok, and floated a proposal that the United States jointly own half the company. “I would be, if he wanted to buy it, yes,” Trump told reporters at a White House event announcing a new AI infrastructure private sector partnership with tech leaders,

The effort was described as a $500 billion investment in artificial intelligence. Read how a small Texas city with a population of about 130,000 fits into the plans.

OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.

Larry, let’s negotiate in front of the media,” Trump said at a press conference with the Oracle co-founder, SoftBank CEO Masa Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure investment.

President Donald Trump announced a joint venture Tuesday with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the United States.

The Stargate project aims to secure American leadership in AI, protect US national security, and create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Day two of Donald Trump's second presidency culminated in an announcement that OpenAI, SoftBank Group and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) will form a venture called Stargate and invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure across the United States, though how much of that was already long planned is anyone's guess.

President Donald Trump kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and more.Legal challenges have already been mounted against his effort to end birthright citizenship and action that makes it easier to fire career government employees.

On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce Stargate, a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project in the United States. He called it the "largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history."