In early October, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and AMD CEO Lisa Su made the rounds of TV news shows, smiling ear to ear as they announced a multiyear partnership worth tens of billions of dollars—one that will see OpenAI deploy hundreds of thousands of AMD chips across its Stargate Project data center mega-campuses. The deal represents roughly six gigawatts of computing power, or about three times the amount of electricity the Hoover Dam can generate.
Su told Fortune that Brockman’s insistence on thinking big was essential to making the deal—which sent AMD’s stock soaring 24% the day it was announced.
