Power generation challenges could overshadow Stargate AI initiative

While the Defense Department is likely to benefit from OpenAI’s announcement this week that it would invest half a trillion dollars to build new artificial intelligence data centers around the country, Pentagon officials warned that the U.S. lacks the energy resources and computing power to support the new infrastructure — and solving that problem won’t be easy.

OpenAI announced the project, dubbed Stargate, on Tuesday, pledging an initial $100 billion — plus another $400 billion over…