Back in January, there was a lot of buzz around a new project called Stargate. OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son had promised something huge—a $500 billion plan to build massive data centers to power the future of artificial intelligence. The project was introduced in front of the White House, and it sounded like work had already begun. Headlines in the news reported that it would create more than 100,000 jobs, stimulate the U.S. economy, and take AI to the next level.