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Google plans $500B Stargate datacenter and Gemini 2 Flash Thinking

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Project Stargate, a proposed $500 billion datacenter, represents a significant investment in AI infrastructure, potentially consuming 1.7% of the US GDP. This initiative is linked to the development of advanced AI models, including Gemini 2 Flash Thinking 2. The project underscores the massive scale of resources being allocated to support the growing demands of artificial intelligence. AI

RANK_REASON Significant investment in AI infrastructure (datacenter scale-out).

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Google plans $500B Stargate datacenter and Gemini 2 Flash Thinking

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Significant investment in AI infrastructure (datacenter scale-out).
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  1. Smol AINews TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Project Stargate: $500b datacenter (1.7% of US GDP) and Gemini 2 Flash Thinking 2

    **Project Stargate**, a US "AI Manhattan project" led by **OpenAI** and **Softbank**, supported by **Oracle**, **Arm**, **Microsoft**, and **NVIDIA**, was announced with a scale comparable to the original Manhattan project costing **$35B inflation adjusted**. Despite Microsoft's …

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