It is said that the Stargate project from Openai is struggling to get out of the ground, thanks to the customs tariff

Openai ambitious Stargate Data Center Project It faces a delay thanks to the economic uncertainty related to the tariff, Bloomberg reports.

The increased market fluctuations and artificial intelligence services made the cheapest banks, private stock investors and asset managers cautious about investing in Stargit, a project led by Openai aimed at collecting up to $ 500 million in Amnesty International Infrastructure in the United States and Foreign Affairs. Softbank, who said in January it will contribute to a large capital to Stargate, has not yet developed a financing template or starting detailed discussions with potential supporters, according to Bloomberg.

Definitions can significantly increase the cost of building a data center. For each TD COWEN analysis that Bloomberg cited, the prices of servers, cooling systems, chips and other components can generally increase construction cost from 5 to 15 % on average.

Investors also grow cautiously of an excessive capacity. As Bloomberg, technology giants including Microsoft and Amazon amended their data center strategies, in some cases construction projects decline.