RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sam Altman said on a podcast that he understands the backlash to AI data centers. The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said data centers should be built away from communities. "We should just go put it off in the desert, around no one where no one wants to be," he said. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, says he gets why communities don't want AI data centers nearby — and suggested they may be better suited for the desert. "I understand emotionally why people don't want data centers in their backyard in the same way that I don't really ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sam Altman said on a podcast that he understands the backlash to AI data centers. The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said data centers should be built away from communities. "We should just go put it off in the desert, around no one where no one wants to be," he said. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, says he gets why communities don't want AI data centers nearby — and suggested they may be better suited for the desert. "I understand emotionally why people don't want data centers in their backyard in the same way that I don't really ...
Read this reportHis change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Sam Altman says he gets why people don't want AI data centers in their backyard.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — US and Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from TechCrunch (Jul 28, 2026, 20:17 UTC); the most recent came from Business Insider (Jul 29, 2026, 09:09 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “sam altman”.
3 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “Sam Altman says he gets why people don't want AI data centers in their backyard” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/32c5175aebb7f9b4b5c1025d9dbca1a7
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