Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them | Arwa Mahdawi
TL;DR
These resource-guzzling centres drive up utility bills and are hated across the political spectrum. Cue a clunky, but potentially influential, new name for them Jesus may have turned water into wine, but Donald Trump has done one better: he turned Lake Ontario into Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America. And then, for his next trick, he insisted we all stop talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and call it superintelligence (SI) instead.
Nauti's Take
For small teams, the label matters far less than access to compute, predictable pricing, and reliable supply. Before treating a new term as strategic progress, check the recurring infrastructure costs and dependencies behind the model you plan to use.
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