A number of Donald Trump supporters and vaccine skeptics have criticized the president after he talked up multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence infrastructure project, which, it was suggested, could help develop vaccines for cancer.
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email outside of regular working hours.
Trump announced a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, which will be called Stargate, during a press conference on Tuesday. The project, which could cost up to $500 billion, was described by Trump as the “largest AI infrastructure project in history.”
The president said the project will result in “over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately.”
Stargate will start building data centers and the electricity generation needed for AI development in Texas, according to the White House.
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison highlighted the potential medical benefits of the investment, stating that AI could be used to detect cancers and customize mRNA vaccines to treat them within 48 hours. Here we go again! Or Them Exposed…
This will not Make America Healthy Again.
— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) January 22, 2025
No medical decisions without RFK Jr, period! pic.twitter.com/jdE6zvfJmS
A.I will never work with you I promise you that… period!
Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla: Our oncology drugs will be blockbuster ones
— Camus (@newstart_2024) May 5, 2024
"Seagen acquisition and oncology. It is what it is our new Covid. So we did what we did with Covid. We are very proud, we saved the world, but it is behind us now. We want to do once more and I⦠pic.twitter.com/NBNKDyI79U
