OpenAI’s Sam Altman willing to pour trillions of dollars into AI infrastructure

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the company is prepared to invest trillions of dollars over time in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure if it can design a new way to finance such massive spending.

Altman told Bloomberg that OpenAI aims to build large-scale data centers in the near future. While some economists may see the move as “risky” or “reckless,” he insisted that nothing would deter the company from pursuing the plan.

“I suspect we can design a very interesting new kind of financial instrument for finance and compute that…