Trump was joined by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison at the White House to announce the venture, dubbed Stargate, which they said would deploy $100 billion immediately with the goal of eventually spending $500 billion for the construction of data centers and physical campuses.

But within hours of the announcement, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had already started taking shots at Trump's highly touted project. Newsweek reached out to SpaceX and a White House spok

Altman took to X to dispute Musk's characterisation on Wednesday, calling it wrong and suggesting Musk was upset because the pact could rival the billionaire's own AI efforts

The initiative announced by President Donald Trump will aim to "secure American leadership in AI" while also creating jobs and economic benefit.

They don’t actually have the money,” Elon Musk wrote on his social media platform, exposing an early internal rift within the White House.

(CNN) — Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, “First Buddy” Elon Musk tried to tear it down. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”

SpaceX plans to build a new vertical integration facility in Florida by Aug. 2026 for Starship assembly and integration.

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