Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can generate high-quality text, images, and other content when prompted by a user.
At a recent meeting at the White House, Sam Altman, the CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and other tech leaders shared a document with government officials outlining the economic and national security benefits of building five to seven 5 gigawatts (5GW) data centres across the U.S.
To put that into context, 5GW is roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactors, or enough to power almost three million homes -- a city the size of Miami.
The U.S. has a total of 96GW of installed nuclear power capacity. Five to seven 5GW data centres would require between 26% and 36% more power.
“OpenAI is actively working to strengthen AI infrastructure in the U.S., which we believe is critical to keeping America at the forefront of global innovation, boosting reindustrialization across the country, and making AI’s benefits accessible to everyone,” OpenAI said in a statement, Bloomberg News reported.
On Friday (September 20), Microsoft announced a deal with Constellation Energy to help it restart Unit 1 of its Three Mile Island nuclear plant, which it shut down in 2019 for economic reasons. Unit 1 will provide Microsoft with nuclear power for two decades.
