Oracle stock is higher Wednesday after President Trump announced the $500 billion AI-focused Stargate Project. Here's what you need to know.

Tech giants are backing a massive effort, announced by President Trump and dubbed the Stargate Project, to add data centers across the U.S.

The venture involves OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle, and starts with an investment of $100 billion. On the second day of his second presidency, Donald Trump announced the creation of a joint venture with OpenAI,

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that three leading companies would make a large investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. OpenAI, SoftBank (9984.T), and Oracle (ORCL.N) will form a joint venture called Stargate,

The goal is to kickstart building more data centers to expand computing capacity for current and future AI projects, including OpenAI's goal of "AGI," which the company defines as a highly autonomous AI system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.