Stargate’s slow start reveals the real bottlenecks in scaling AI infrastructure

The ambitious $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project is moving significantly slower than anticipated, with SoftBank Group CFO Yoshimitsu Goto publicly acknowledging the delays during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

“It’s taking a little longer than our initial timeline,” Goto said during the call, describing the project as proceeding “slower than usual.”