On a crisp winter morning in late January, the world's attention converged on the Oval Office, where the weight of history hung in the air like a tangible presence. Nearly 110 years to the day from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson taking part in one of the first ever transcontinental telephone calls between Washington and San Francisco, the iconic room, with its rich tapestry of presidential legacies, bore witness to an announcement that would reshape the landscape of digital infrastructure. The 47th President of the United States of America, Donald John Trump, flanked by a cadre of industry titans and government officials, unveiled Stargate—a monumental privately-funded AI infrastructure project designed to catapult the US into a new era of supremacy.