The Stargate burned through 8 billion a year, but at least it protected the world from aliens. This Stargate is just going to cost the world another financial crash. Hopefully it kills a few of these companies when it does. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Perplexity, ... the world would be better off without them.

But there's no way the US government will let any of its shining beacons of capitalism fail.