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Assertion Supported
Coogan: Stargate $500B figure represents total cost of ownership not upfront capex
“We believe this project is being measured on the total cost of ownership, not capital expenditures, i.e. The one hundred billion and the five hundred billion is TCO, which includes the capital expenditures for data centers, servers, Networking costs, power cos…”
John Coogan Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:20:12 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
Assertion Partly supported
Coogan: First $100 Billion of Project Stargate Goes to Texas
“We know the first hundred billion will be spent in Abilene, and that there will be more campuses developed for the remaining four hundred billion.”
John Coogan Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:32:16 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
Assertion Partly supported
Hays: Stargate's $500B Plan Dwarfs Total 2024 US Startup Funding
“The companies are committing a hundred billion to the venture with plans to invest up to five hundred billion over the next four years, which actually seems- To put this into perspective, in twenty-twenty-four, I believe there was a hundred and sixty-eight bil…”
Jordi Hays Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 4:19 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Trump is not committing federal money to Project Stargate
“The, like Trump is not committing money to this. He was just like, This is cool.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 1:09 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
Assertion Supported
Hays: Masayoshi Son claimed he overdelivered $500B pledge to Trump
“And Masa had very much framed it as before he, you know, apparently the conversation went, if you get, if you win, I'll bring you a hundred billion dollars. And Masa was saying like, I came back with 500.”
Jordi Hays Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 1:20 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
Assertion Supported
Coogan: OpenAI Will Run Its Own Cluster Management Software for Stargate
“OpenAI will main control of operations and run almost all of its own cluster management software.”
John Coogan Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:31:57 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
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