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are we going to build ai energy infrastructure quickly? american ai leaders gathered at the white house to discuss the layout

2024-09-13

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cnbc quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that openai, anthropic, microsoft, google and executives from several u.s. energy and utility companies held a meeting at the white house on thursday to discuss the future of the u.s. artificial intelligence energy infrastructure.

participants included openai ceo sam altman, anthropic ceo dario amodei, and google president ruth porat.the meeting focused on how to bring the public and private sectors together to discuss energy use for artificial intelligence, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing, and grid capacity.

a spokesperson for openai said the company believes building more infrastructure in the united states is critical to industrial policy and the economic future.

“we thank the white house for convening this meeting, which reflects the importance of ai in creating jobs, helps ensure that the benefits of ai are widely applied, and ensures that the united states remains at the forefront of ai innovation.”

“we thank the white house for convening this meeting, which reflects the importance of ai in creating jobs, helps ensure that the benefits of ai are widely applied, and ensures that the united states remains at the forefront of ai innovation.”

a person familiar with the matter told cnbc:openai shared its analysis of the economic impact of ai with biden administration officials, including the estimated impact on jobs and gdp of building large data centers in u.s. states such as wisconsin, california, texas, and pennsylvania.