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Kevin Okemwa

Sam Altman needs 100 million AI GPUs worth $3 trillion for his vision — after OpenAI was forced to do "unnatural things"

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025.

Remember when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was branded a "podcasting bro" by TSMC executives for his audacious and ambitious AI plan that would "take $7 trillion and many years to build 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centers" to bring the dream to reality?

It's becoming apparent that generative AI is a resource-hungry technology that demands a huge amount of computing power and cooling water to facilitate its sophisticated advances as it scales greater heights.

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