President Trump announced that billionaire founder of DAMAC Properties, Hussain Sajwani, will be investing $20 billion in new U.S. datacenters that will be used to operate high speed artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Noting, “at least $20 billion over a very short period of time.” Trump suggested that number could double, and that the company’s founder was inspired by his election victory.
The data centers will be used for AI, and the initial phase will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Mr Sajwani confirmed during the press remarks that it was the election of President Trump that cemented the idea to build the massive data centers.
This investment appears to align with the AI interests of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were big boosters in the final weeks of the campaign. Following the announcement President Trump took questions from the press pool. WATCH:
Hussain Sajwani, has long-standing ties to President Donald Trump. His business, DAMAC Properties, worked with the Trump Organization on a Trump golf course in Dubai. Mr Sajwani and Elon Musk joined President Trump for the New Year celebration in Mar-a-Lago.
Asked by a reporter whether he can assure the public that he will not use military or economic coercion to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump flatly said “no.”
“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But I can say this. We need them for economic security,” Trump said.
Steve Witkoff, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, made a brief appearance alongside Trump and said that he is making “good progress” on a deal to release Israeli hostages.
Witkoff, who said he is “on the verge” of a deal, said he is likely to return to the region by Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump also said he will be “making major pardons” for defendants who have faced charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
RELATED CONTEXT – The database that is currently being scanned by the Palantir AI product is NSA level captures.
Real ID (Driver’s License and Passport pictures) combined with full spectrum social media (FB, Insta, Google, and every cell phone camera picture/selfie you take) that identifies your personage (plus more, like images from airports, point of sale, ATM machines, tolls, APLR captures, etc).
That combined massive meta-database is the library (govt and private sector combined) that is subsequently searched by the Palantir AI software to return results on facial recognition.
Everyone gets ID’d. Take a football stadium high-resolution picture and with AI assisting, 99% of the crowd is identified in moments with links to their electronic and digital fingerprints.
The issue I note is that a few faces are NOT identified during the search result. When queried, the “ghost walkers” appear to be classified identities that require escalating levels of authorization to open up the ID.
That’s the system we have now. It is being refined.
Even if it is used in the deportation operation, I still do not like this level of surveillance capability by government. I guess I’m just paranoid about what government can do with a system like this if they choose to weaponize it.
