Pentagon officials said the U.S. lacks the energy resources and computing power to support the new infrastructure — and solving that problem won’t be easy.

The $60 to $65 billion in projected capital expenditures this year is more than double the $27 billion Meta spent in 2023.

Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. At a White House press conference,