On June 29, 1956, the United States started down a road that changed society — quite literally.
That day, President Eisenhower signed a pivotal piece of legislation called the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, or more commonly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956.
Never heard of it? Don’t worry, most people haven’t either. And what this key piece of legislation did was nothing short of extraordinary.
Just four years earlier, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952 authorized a paltry $25 million to fund an interstate system; it did so on a 50-50 matching basis. Only 6,500 miles of system improvements were made the following year.
In 1954, another $175 million was thrown at the project, and it quickly became apparent that funding was egregiously inadequate to build what was needed.
Then came President Eisenhower’s 1956 legislation, which authorized $25 billion through 1969 that expanded the interstate system to 41,000 miles; rather than a 50-50 matching basis, the federal government covered 90% of construction cost.
The first contracts were awarded on August 2, 1956, and the first portion of I-70 that ran through St. Charles County, Missouri was completed three months later. Now, the Interstate Highway System stretches 48,482 miles throughout the United States.
Take a moment as an investor and think of the ramifications from that 1956 legislation — and the opportunities that arose from it!
In 1950, there were roughly 49 million passenger and commercial vehicles on the road. At the time, we were consuming about 2.6 million barrels of gasoline per year.
By 2023, there were nearly 280 million vehicles on the road, and our thirst for gasoline had swelled to 9 million barrels of gasoline — for the record, that’s a jaw-dropping 378 million gallons of gas filling up our tanks every year.
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Why is this important?
Well, because this week another infrastructure project took shape that will put the United States down another path, one that will once again forever change our society.
And the opportunities emerging this time will dwarf what we saw since the 1950s!
The Key Investment Everyone Is Missing From Project Stargate
Over the last few years, it has become clear that AI is on the verge of revolutionizing our society as we know it.
But this isn’t shocking, is it? After all, AI has dominated media headlines, captured everyone’s attention, and in some instances, completely changed the game for some industries already.
And this is just the beginning.
Along with the flurry of Executive Orders that the Trump administration has made in just the first 24 hours, he announced one of the biggest, most ambitious infrastructure projects since the Interstate Highway System.
Dubbed Project Stargate, private companies are committing $500 billion over the next four years to boost our domestic AI infrastructure. In fact, $100 billion is already being deployed as you read this.
The project brings together some of the biggest names in tech, including OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank.
The ramifications of Project Stargate will be widespread, and at the forefront are the ten new data centers under construction right now in Texas; the plan is to eventually expand to 20 data center projects.
We’re looking at the re-industrialization of the United States.
However, this ambition comes with a huge price that almost everyone seems to be missing.
Make no mistake, dear reader, the success of Project Stargate hinges on one thing, and one thing alone: Power. Current projections for power demand in the U.S. is nothing short of incredible.
Here’s a recent McKinsey projection showing just how critical it will be to meet energy demand for future U.S. data centers:
THIS is why we’ve seen the largest tech companies on the planet make aggressive moves to expand their reach for more nuclear power in recent years.
The announcement alone has sent nuclear stocks higher, with investors scrambling to buy next-gen nuclear companies — the companies that are developing small modular reactor (SMR) technology that will help fuel tomorrow’s AI data centers.
But the real money won’t be made in building these SMRs.
My readers and I already know that the real hidden investment gem will be in fueling those next-gen reactors — and here’s where you should be looking at right now.
Until next time,
Keith Kohl
Check us out on YouTube!A true insider in the technology and energy markets, Keith’s research has helped everyday investors capitalize from the rapid adoption of new technology trends and energy transitions. Keith connects with hundreds of thousands of readers as the Managing Editor of Energy & Capital, as well as the investment director of Angel Publishing’s Energy Investor and Technology and Opportunity.
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