What’s Up With Microsoft’s Stargate?

Should we take Microsoft's rumored $115 billion plan to build a supercomputer seriously?

Rui Alves
Ai-Ai-OH
Published in
4 min readApr 17, 2024

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Vector depiction of stargate.
Creative Commons image found on Pixabay

This year, April Fool’s Day came with the news that Microsoft and OpenAI had joined forces to build a $115 billion data center.

The name for this outlandish endeavor was “Project Stargate.”

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Rui Alves
Ai-Ai-OH

I'm a language teacher, linguist and published author (who joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.