“The data center and AI industries need to figure out a way to continue to grow, given our current power production constraints and Sam Altman has a real motivation to solve that. His brilliance can only help accelerate progress for the entire industry,” said Jordan Rose, Founder and President of Rose Law Group, who works on data center projects.
By BisNow
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is considering a plan to self-develop data centers for the firm, part of an initiative for the ChatGPT maker to create its own AI chips.
Altman has told tech industry executives he intends to establish one or more companies that will use outside capital to acquire land and power and fund the construction of new data centers for OpenAI, The Information reports. OpenAI would rent the servers housed in those data centers, according to the report.
The potential data center build-out is part of an effort spearheaded by Altman for OpenAI or affiliated entities to develop and design proprietary artificial intelligence chips. OpenAI gets the bulk of its chips from Nvidia, but the firm is reportedly in talks with chip designers like Broadcom about the possibility of producing its own. The planned data centers would host infrastructure powered by these chips.
OpenAI would follow Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta in using proprietary silicon at its data centers.
