Altman: OpenAI will use robots to build data centers as compute hunger persists
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-30
Sam Altman said on compute shortage: "We always just want more compute," revealing OpenAI is learning to build its own data centers and has a robotics program aimed at mass-producing data centers and components. Commenter abhiadesai adds a counterintuitive take on lab value capture: in the limit, sufficient intelligence breaks every moat — the superintelligence company likely overtakes the rocket-launch-monopoly company, not the other way around.
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