Off the back of its globe-spanning, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-makes-flurry-of-deals-in-drive-towards-for-profit-model-ai-giant-teams-up-with-nvidia-luxshare-apple-and-more” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-makes-flurry-of-deals-in-drive-towards-for-profit-model-ai-giant-teams-up-with-nvidia-luxshare-apple-and-more”>near-trillion-dollar infrastructure project announcements, OpenAI is now calling on the US government to invest more heavily in power generation, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=tomshardware_us_1129012308436213878&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2Fopen-ai-power-china.html&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fartificial-intelligence%2Fopenai-calls-on-u-s-to-build-100-gigawatts-of-additional-power-generating-capacity-per-year-says-electricity-is-a-strategic-asset-in-ai-race-against-china” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/open-ai-power-china.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” rel=”sponsored noopener” data-hl-processed=”skimlinks” data-placeholder-url=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=hawk-custom-tracking&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2Fopen-ai-power-china.html&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fartificial-intelligence%2Fopenai-calls-on-u-s-to-build-100-gigawatts-of-additional-power-generating-capacity-per-year-says-electricity-is-a-strategic-asset-in-ai-race-against-china” data-google-interstitial=”false” data-merchant-name=”cnbc.com” data-merchant-network=”SkimLinks”>according to CNBC. Describing electricity as a “strategic asset,” as much as a public utility, OpenAI believes the US needs to build up to 100 gigawatts of additional power-generating capacity per year in order to power data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver”>the AI race it’s now entered in with China.
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