The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - The Energy & Sustainability Channel, OpenAI
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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OpenAI hires new energy regulatory lead
Will Friedman joins from AWS
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OpenAI hiring for clean energy and new technology lead
Position is an individual contributor lead role and will initially have no direct reports
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SB Energy files for IPO, targeting a raise of $5-7bn
Would value the company at approximately $50bn
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman owns stakes in Cerebras, CoreWeave, Stripe, and Helion
All companies with which OpenAI has entered into business deals
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OpenAI 'in talks' to purchase energy from nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy - report
Could secure 5GW of power by 2030
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Trump admin pushes data center companies to commit to pact on energy prices and water usage
Following earlier deal with Microsoft
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SoftBank's SB Energy to build and operate OpenAI's 1.2GW Stargate data center in Milam County, Texas
OpenAI, SoftBank commit $1 billion into the firm
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OpenAI tells White House that US needs 100GW of new energy per year to support AI boom
Calls to close “electron gap” with China
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Utility Central Puerto signs MoU to power OpenAI’s Stargate Argentina project - report
Likely to supply power via a hydroelectric dam
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Hitachi partners with OpenAI to deliver power infrastructure for AI data centers - report
Will also see OpenAI provide Hitachi with LLM access
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GPT-5 could require significantly more energy per ChatGPT response compared to prior versions - report
Could require more than 18 watt-hours per output
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OpenAI hiring for energy policy lead
Could help Stargate's multi-gigawatt power ambitions come to be
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Solar power and batteries planned for OpenAI's Stargate AI data center campus - report
SB Energy will apparently be supplying its tech
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Trump: "We need double the energy we currently have in the US for AI," promises emergency declaration for more power
He may have confused it with data center power doubling
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US DOE considers building AI data center testbed, setting data center standards, grid upgrade tariffs
Building its own facility and enacting new legislation to help avert AI energy crisis
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OpenAI wants to buy 'vast quantities' of nuclear fusion energy from Helion - report
Sam Altman keeping it in the family as he eyes deal with company he chairs
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and a16z back data center-focused thermal energy company Exowatt
Company aims to store solar energy via thermal battery; company claims 500MW backlog of data center customers in US
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AI needs energy breakthroughs including fusion, says OpenAI's Sam Altman
He's also after more nuclear fission along with solar plus storage
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Microsoft's water consumption jumps 34 percent amid AI boom
Thirsty work for OpenAI's data center provider