News · moment 6 of 28
Sam Altman's Molotov Cocktail and Stargate Deals
from Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492 · #492
3 min
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Tim jokes that Sam Altman staged a Molotov cocktail attack on his own house for sympathy, then runs through the Wall Street Journal reporting on Altman's crypto payments to Trump's family, the Stargate AI project, and deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
- Sam Altman held a 25-minute call with Trump four days before inauguration to discuss announcing a version of Stargate so Trump could take credit.
- On Trump's second day in office, Altman stood in the Roosevelt Room and announced Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture to build AI infrastructure across the US.
- Altman and Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with Muhammad bin Salman around the time the Saudis advertised launching a giant state-backed AI firm.
- Stargate plans to build a data center campus in Abu Dhabi seven times larger than Central Park, consuming as much power as the city of Miami.
- A former AI executive claimed: "We're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens."
- The portals currently exist in the United States and China, with Sam adding one in the Middle East.
- Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman's house, though Tim notes everyone should be against it if it happened.
- Tim says if he were doing what Altman was doing, he would throw a Molotov cocktail at his own house to make himself seem like a sympathetic figure.
Sam AltmanStargateDonald TrumpAI infrastructureMohammed bin Salman