Trump just pull a stunt with Saudi Arabia. He first tried to "convince" them to reduce the oil price to hurt Russia. In the following negotiations the oil price was no longer mentioned but MBS promised to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over 4 years:
https://fortune.com/2025/01/23/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-trump-...
Since the Stargate Initiative is a private sector deal, this may have been a perfect shakedown of Saudi Arabia. SA has always been irrationally attracted to "AI", so perhaps it was easy. I mean that part of the $600 billion will go to "AI".