Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers
September 29th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
While most of the news this week about Sam Altman has been centered around the nearly $10 billion in equity he could be receiving in OpenAI, another headline slipped through the cracks mid-week: OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on a build-out of massive data centers.
OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to support the construction of massive data centers, each consuming as much power as a city, to advance AI development and compete with China.
After a recent White House meeting attended by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company submitted a document outlining the economic and security benefits of building 5-gigawatt data centers across several U.S. states—equivalent to the output of five nuclear reactors, enough to power 3 million homes, according to Bloomberg.
