What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The A.I. Data Center Push That Wasn't
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman, flanked by President Trump and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, announced a hugely ambitious investment in data centers across America to support all the artificial intelligence we’re going to be using. Months in, the project has been scaled back to a single, power-hungry data center in Ohio.
Guest: Berber Jin, reporter covering A.I. for the Wall Street Journal
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