Dirty Money President Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate, is receiving a ton of funding from an Abu Dhabi-based investment company called MGX — which is led by the United Arab Emirates’ president’s brother, Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan. According to The Information, the firm is contributing roughly $7 billion to the project, which is hoping to raise $100 billion to build out AI infrastructure in the United States before expanding that figure to a half trillion in several years’ time. Tahnoun is in charge of a $1.5 trillion empire, reflecting of the UAE’s vast crude oil wealth. He also has a strong interest AI, quickly emerging as one of the biggest investors in the industry. On the flip side, the national security advisor is also a member of the country’s royal family, which has an abysmal track record when it comes to human rights abuses, from detaining prisoners of conscience to the torturing of immigrant workers. The family’s members also have a well-documented reputation for dodging taxes and laundering money abroad using offshore companies, earning the UAE a spot on the European Union’s “black list” of countries that are failing to keep illicit money flows at bay. In short, Trump’s massive AI infrastructure project is receiving a ton of dubiously-sourced cash — an ethical miasma that will haunt the program from its earliest days. Green New Datacenter By relying on oil money, Stargate also highlights a greater turn away from investments in renewable sources of energy, with progressing AI…Trump's $500 Billion AI Deal Includes Funding by UAE Royal Family Linked to Astonishing Number of Scandals, Including Human Torture