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nvidia ceo jen-hsun huang

phoenix.com technology news: on september 13, beijing time, local time in the united states on thursday, nvidia ceo jensen huang and openai ceo sam altman met with senior biden administration officials and other industry leaders at the white house to discuss how to meet the huge demand for infrastructure for artificial intelligence (ai) projects.

other tech leaders who attended the meeting included google president ruth porat, microsoft president brad smith and dario amodei, ceo of ai startup anthropic, people familiar with the matter said. representatives from the energy industry also attended the meeting. white house administration officials who attended the meeting included commerce secretary gina raimondo, national security advisor jake sullivan and energy secretary jennifer granholm.

a white house official said the goal of the meeting was to promote public-private cooperation around the construction of ai data centers in the united states. people familiar with the matter said that topics discussed at the meeting included licensing approval, labor, electricity demand, and the economic impact of these facilities. for example, openai plans to use investment from around the world to invest tens of billions of dollars to promote the construction of u.s. ai infrastructure, covering data centers, energy capacity, transmission, and semiconductor manufacturing. for several months, openai executives have been meeting with government officials to discuss a range of issues related to the plan, including national security issues that may be related to foreign investment.

“openai believes that infrastructure is our destiny, and building more infrastructure in the united states is critical to the nation’s industrial policy and economic future,” openai said in a statement thursday, highlighting the economic benefits of investing in u.s. data center projects, including the potential creation of 40,000 jobs across multiple states.

google president porat said that a sound u.s. energy infrastructure is critical to ensuring the united states' leadership in the emerging field of ai. "today's white house meeting is an important opportunity to advance the work needed to modernize and expand the capacity of the u.s. energy grid," she said in a statement.

in the united states, the surge in ai-driven data center construction coincides with a boost to the entire manufacturing sector from the chips and science act and the inflation reduction act, two landmark subsidy bills signed by president biden in 2022 to support the semiconductor and clean energy industries.

as of press time, microsoft and anthropic have not yet commented. (author/xiao yu)

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