
New York Times Long Article | 81-year-old Allison All In AI bet on Oracle and kidnapped the entire United States
Source: The New York Times Authors: Jonathan Mahler, Jim Rutenberg, Kirsten Grind Original title: Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble? Editor and collation: BitPushNewsBitPush Note: Through long-term in-depth research, the New York Times reporter interviewed dozens of people familiar with Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison) and Oracle (Oracle) in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Hawaii, and New York, and reviewed numerous financial documents, analytical reports, and court records. The article focuses on Larry Ellison's bets on the aggressive transformation of artificial intelligence, revealing how Oracle (Oracle) relies on huge debt to expand AI infrastructure, and the profound risks this gamble may bring to companies, capital markets, and even the US economy. Here's the text: January 21, 2025 — the first full working day since Trump's second administration took office — Larry Ellison woke up in his 33-bedroom, 34-bathroom beachfront mansion in Florida, boarded his private jet, and flew to Washington. Ellison, who was 80 years old at the time, had a net worth of about 200 billion US dollars and wanted to go to the White House for an appointment. He was too lazy to even bring his driver's license — got to the door and call a staff member close to the president to guarantee his identity — but at 2 p.m., he was already standing next to Donald Trump in Roosevelt Hall. The president announced the launch of “the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in history to date,” and told the world that his friend Larry Ellison was the right person to complete this task. “He's kind of like the CEO of everything,” Trump said. “He's an amazing person and an amazing businessman.” Ellison first thanked Trump. “Of course we wouldn't be able to do this without you,” he said. “It just wouldn't be possible.” He then drew up this ambitious plan. Ellison's database software and cloud computing company Oracle, and its partners — most notably OpenAI — will invest up to $500 billion over the next four years to build a number of giant data centers. Each data center covers an area of 500,000 square feet and will generate a total of 10 gigawatts of computing power, consuming enough electricity to power up to 10 million homes. The name of the project “Stargate” is taken from the 1994 sci-fi movie of the same name: in the film, Kurt Russell walks through a wormhole and finds himself inside a pyramid on an alien planet. In reality, this “Stargate” will be the entrance to lead humans from the post-industrial era to the era of artificial intelligence. Ellison sided with Trump long before many other tech leaders turned to support him. After the 2020 election, he attended a strategic conference call with Trump's cronies to discuss how to reverse the election results; in 2024, he also donated tens of millions of dollars to support Trump's campaign. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was also present at the White House on the same day, was a Democratic Party donor and Trump critic. To facilitate this event, Ellison helped arrange a call between the two. As far as Ellison is concerned, this White House appearance is a work of him running frantically for two years trying to transform Oracle into an AI giant to the top. The effort began in late 2022: ChatGPT came out of nowhere, shocking the world and starting a battle of contention — everyone wanted to master and control the most disruptive new technology since the birth of the internet. As one of the founders of Silicon Valley and the last person still on the table in that generation, Ellison desperately didn't want to be left behind. He acted quickly and harshly — some would even say almost reckless — to try to turn Oracle into a “hyperscale cloud service provider,” one of the few companies that can provide critical infrastructure and power the AI boom. These efforts have at times brought Ellison into conflict with the Biden administration. The latter has taken a more cautious approach to artificial intelligence and introduced a series of regulatory measures, hoping that the government can take some control over its development process. The Biden team believes that if the US wants to stay ahead in the AI competition, the best way is to control the ability of US companies to provide computing power to foreign countries such as China and the Persian Gulf authoritarian regime. Picture: On January 21, 2025, after announcing the “Stargate” project, President Trump met SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Larry...




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