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OpenAI reportedly wants to build ‘five to seven’ 5 gigawatt data centers — ‘You’re talking about more than 1% of global electricity consumption for just those datacenters alone’


Five gigawatts is the kind of power a major city needs.

To support its ambitions to develop AI systems that would be as intelligent as people, OpenAI wants the U.S. government to help streamline the construction of massive data centers that would suck up as much power as major American cities. The Biden Administration subsequently announced a coordinated push across government, to speed up the build-out of new AI data centers “in line with economic, national security, and environmental goals.” But in the last couple days, reports from Bloomberg and the New York Times have provided more details about what OpenAI in particular is trying to get from the government: support in its quest to build data centers with power requirements of 5 gigawatts each.

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