OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan to place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities. An OpenAI document outlining the plan, reports that 5 gigawatts "is roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactors" and warns that each data center will likely require "more energy than is used to power an entire city or about 3 million homes."
OpenAI hopes to convince the White House to approve a sprawling plan to place 5-gigawatt AI data centers in different US cities. An OpenAI document outlining the plan, reports that 5 gigawatts "is roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactors" and warns that each data center will likely require "more energy than is used to power an entire city or about 3 million homes."