OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

In Brief

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them thing else?

Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a “PR blitz” for aft the midterm elections connected Tuesday, arsenic Democrats look apt to triumph backmost the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too.

The company’s main planetary affairs serviceman Chris Lehane told Axios that the midterms volition beryllium “a spot of a movie trailer for what you’re going to spot successful 2028,” erstwhile helium expects AI to beryllium “the issue” successful the statesmanlike election.

So OpenAI is to power the AI statement moving forward, with Lehane discussing respective proposals, including the improvement of AI “speed limits”; uncovering ways to assistance radical spot AI arsenic empowering them successful their regular lives; pushing the U.S. to instrumentality a relation successful processing planetary standards — and yes, rebranding information centers arsenic “AI compute campuses.”

Lehane besides described the speech astir information centers (a statement that has pushed Amazon and Microsoft to accidental they volition no longer usage NDAs successful their negotiations with section governments) arsenic “good and healthy.”

“Communities should clasp companies liable and accountable truthful they truly and genuinely get a transformative payment from these projects,” helium said.

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