TLDR;
The video presents a theory that Trump is not building a ballroom at the White House, but rather an underground data center for AI infrastructure. The theory is supported by analysis of the project's contractors, architects, construction materials, power and water upgrades, and donors. The speaker draws parallels to Oracle's underground data centers in Jerusalem and argues that the facility is intended to house Project Stargate, a $500 billion AI initiative for government operations, defense intelligence, and consolidating federal data across agencies. The location of the facility within the White House complex would provide executive privilege and protection from oversight.
- Trump is allegedly building an underground data center, not a ballroom.
- The data center is intended to house Project Stargate, a $500 billion AI initiative.
- The facility is designed to survive missile strikes and other attacks.
- The location of the facility within the White House complex would provide executive privilege and protection from oversight.
The Genesis of the Idea [1:18]
The idea that Trump is building an underground data center came from research into Larry Ellison and Oracle's construction of underground data centers in Jerusalem in 2021. These facilities were built nine stories deep under solid bedrock to survive missile strikes and provide data sovereignty for Israel's sensitive military data. The specifications of Oracle's underground facilities in Jerusalem, which were 90,000 square feet and cost around $319 million, are similar to Trump's ballroom, which is about 90,000 square feet and $300 million and climbing. On January 21st, 2025, Trump's first full day in office, Larry Ellison and Sam Altman announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative for government operations, defense intelligence, and consolidating federal data across agencies.
The Contractor: Clark Construction [3:49]
Clark Construction is the lead contractor for the ballroom project. The company's critical facilities division lists projects such as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus, CISA Cyber Security Headquarters, and You Sentcom Headquarters at McDill Air Force Base. Clark Construction has also been awarded six redacted contracts for data centers around the US, listed as confidential client data centers 1 through 6. Clark Construction holds a NAVFAC contract, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, with a $950 million ceiling, which allows them to hide the true value, cost, and scope of projects by funneling them through these pre-existing military construction contracts.
The Architect: Shalom Bares [6:00]
Trump fired his ballroom architect, James McCreary, and replaced him with Shalom Bares. Shalom Bares designed the post-9/11 hardening project for the Pentagon, including secure wedges, skiffs, and bomb-resistant architecture. Skiffs are sensitive compartments information facilities with electromagnetically shielded rooms for classified intelligence work, built to survive missile attacks. Shalom Bares' portfolio also includes DHS headquarters, Treasury building modernization, the GSA headquarters secure facility, and the CISA cyber security headquarters that Clark Construction also built.
Physical Evidence and Infrastructure Upgrades [7:13]
Satellite imagery shows flatbed trucks delivering massive steel casians to the site, which are used for deep underground construction to hold back soil and water pressure. A heavy lift crane is permanently anchored into a concrete pad, indicating long-duration construction involving heavy structural materials and lifts from a deep excavation pit. Pepco filed emergency requests for infrastructure work near the East Wing, including relocation of water infrastructure, large-scale waterline modifications, and Champlain substation modernization. DC Water increased their capital spending by $300 million, including a specific study of the federal triangle area. The Washington Aqueduct warned that data centers are planning to use Ptoic River water for cooling.
The Donors: A Supply Chain for a Data Center [9:23]
The Carrier Corporation is donating an HVAC system to the White House ballroom, but they also have Carrier Quantum Leap, which is specifically their data center solutions. Paulo Timani's company, Boxible, makes foldable prefab buildings that come pre-installed with Faraday caging, electromagnetic shielding for skiffs. Boxible has sent over 150 units to Guantanamo Bay and their SEC filings mention government exemptions from normal state regulations, meaning they have clearance to work in classified DoD sites. Caterpillar makes industrial generators, the CAT 3516B models that provide over 100 megawatts of backup power. Union Pacific owns 1,400 miles of classified fiber optic cables that run along the railway right of way, which the Department of Defense uses as their secure telecommunications backbone. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Palunteer, Boozel and Hamilton, and Blackstone are also donors.
Project Stargate and AI Warfare Infrastructure [13:50]
Israel built underground data centers for Project Nimbus, their government cloud infrastructure, which runs AI systems for military operations, intelligence gathering, government AI, and information systems. Project Stargate, announced on January 21st, 2025, is a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative that needs a home. The East Wing sits directly above the presidential emergency operations center, the PEOC bunker, and demolishing the entire East Wing removed every structure blocking access to that bunker. The president controls what gets disclosed and what doesn't, meaning the government running on AI with all of that power consolidated under executive control in a facility that can survive anything and Congress can't audit.
