Just a comparison of US $500B Stargate AI project to other tech projects
Manhattan Project ~$30 billion in today’s dollars [~1.5% of US GDP in the mid-1940s]
Apollo Program ~$170–$180 billion in today’s dollars [~0.5% of US GDP in the mid-1960s]
Space Shuttle Program ~$275–$300 billion in today’s dollars [~0.2% of US GDP in the early 1980s]
Interstate Highway System, entire decades-long Interstate Highway System buildout, ~$500–$550 billion in today’s dollars [~0.2%–0.3% of GDP annually over multiple decades]
Stargate is huge AI project [~1.7% of US GDP 2024]
Update: rough GDP calculations added