I was watching the OpenAI livestream yesterday.

Sam was saying they have a $1.4 tn financial obligation to build 30 GW worth of data centers https://youtu.be/ngDCxlZcecw?t=1179

That's a lot of money to raise given they have no earnings.

He also says they are talking about being able to build 1 GW a week at a cost of $20bn/GW

I find it all a bit worrying. Weren't we supposed to be careful with energy use to reduce CO2 emissions? Could the billions maybe better deployed to schools hospitals, housing and the like rather than chatbots?

Rather than a fictional paperclip maximising AI eating the world we have a chatbot maximising Altman trying to do so?