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“Stargate is "a new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI infrastructure in the United States and very, very quickly, moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately."”
President of the United States
Said Jan 21, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2025White House remarks announcing the Stargate AI infrastructure initiative, January 21, 2025 (Roll Call Factba.se transcript)
Nothing close to 100,000 jobs appeared 'almost immediately': Bloomberg reported the flagship Abilene site was contractually guaranteed only 57 full-time positions, and by mid-2026 Oracle described roughly 9,000 temporary construction jobs and about 1,000 eventual permanent jobs there. OpenAI's own September 2025 expansion projected 'over 25,000 onsite jobs' across five new sites as a forward-looking estimate, well short of 100,000 delivered in 2025.