The Stargate Project is a massive $500 billion public-private initiative to build twenty AI data center campuses financed by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, and spearheaded by OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Arm. This joint venture would not be possible without the Trump administration, which has fast-tracked AI infrastructure development and gutted federal agencies and policies to clear the path for unregulated fossil-fuel energy production and consumption.
With four of the seven U.S.-based Stargate sites planned in the Southwest, this region is seeing a dangerous new layer of extraction from Big Tech corporations. With a long history of environmental harms and exploitation due to Big Oil and the military, data centers are the newest corporate threat coming for the region’s water, energy, and land.
Download our fact sheet to learn more about The Stargate Project, its harms on our communities, and the corporate-government collusion fueling the most dangerous extraction project of our time.
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