OpenAI warns White House of China’s energy dominance

OpenAI warned the White House on Monday that China’s commitment to building new energy generation could give it an edge in the AI race. 

The company recommends that the U.S. prioritize “closing the electron gap” by building 100 GW a year of new energy capacity.

“In pursuit of its goal to overtake the US and lead the world on AI by 2030, [China] has built real momentum in energy production — treating capacity as the foundation of industrial competitiveness,” said OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Christopher Lehane, in a letter to Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and science adviser to the president. 

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