AGI is absolutely a national security concern. Despite it being an enormous number, it'll happen. It may not be earmarked for OpenAI, but the US is going to ensure that the energy capability is there.
This may well be the PR pivot that's to come once it becomes clear that taxpayer funding is needed to plug any financing shortfalls for the industry - it's "too big to let fail". It won't all go to OpenAI, but be distributed across a consortium of other politically connected corps: Oracle, Nvidia/Intel, Microsoft, Meta and whoever else.
These 6 companies are using only a small portion of their own cash reserves to invest, and using private credit for the rest. Meta is getting a $30 billion loan from PIMCO and Blue Owl for a datacenter [0], which they could easily pay for out of their own pocket. There are also many datacenters that are being funded through asset-backed securities or commercial mortgage-backed securities [0], the market for which can quickly collapse if expected income doesn't materialize, leading to mortgage defaults, as in 2008.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/meta-set-clinch-...
[1] https://www.etftrends.com/etf-strategist-channel/securitizin...
We're doing a pretty shit job of ensuring that today. Capacity is already intensely strained, and the govt seems to be decelerating investment into power capacity growth, if anything
> Despite it being an enormous number, it'll happen.
Care to share your crystal ball ?