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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout

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Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects into bad bets, even for OpenAI…

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  1. 2026-09-03 12:00 · The Decoder
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout

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