OpenAI's letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
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The AI companies are spending close to a trillion dollars building data centers. On top of that, they’re now promising they’ll handle all environmental and power needs. I believe them, they probably will do that, thats not even too expensive. They need to however recoup this investment somehow, which is the fundamental problem with a technology…
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https://texas-connects.com/ is also running lots of commercials locally. But both this open letter _and_ the commercials intentionally skate around the resource needs.> OpenAI will pay our own way and protect residential and small-business customers [...] OpenAI will work to support new power generation in TexasNotice how this very intentionally…
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Gotta love how all the companies' platitudes about sustainability become ludicrous as they begin burning natural gas at prodigious scales. But don't worry, "AI will solve climate change" so we can just pump extra CO2 now, right guys?I am deeply, deeply cynical and honestly angry about these companies and their self-righteous protestations of being…
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This is a collection of "OpenAI will boldly act in the abstract to provide air coverage for Texas leadership." With data centers under construction one would think they would have examples of successes or projects in progress available for reference. They'd claim credit if they had it so the silence is telling.Big tech has consistently valued…
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If Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them…
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How much does OpenAI actually control the way the data centers are built and deployed?I don’t know much about the impact of their data centers compared to others, but there weren’t many (if any) concrete commitments in this letter. The promises all seem like areas that even an evil corporation could pay lip service to.
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OpenAI:Commit to 117% of your datacenter power demand to be supplied by nuclear, wind, and solar, so it arrives the same day (or sooner) than your demand starts.This isn't that hard.
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I wonder if AI will be the thing that gets Texas to finally connect to the rest of the country’s regional power grids rather than being isolated to one state.
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I'm always surprised by how cynical the comments on the internet are about America's technology leaders and U.S. industrial expansion.
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> OpenAI supports transparency and accountabilityJust like it supported 'Open AI'?