The Oracle deal with OpenAI for $300 billion caused the entire market to pump, but OpenAI is burning through VC cash as is. Where the fuck are they going to get the money? Not to mention the power grid can't handle the increased demand and there's been zero proof that the glorified chatbot they're calling "AI" is able to significantly boost corporate productivity. It's absolutely insane.

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A lot of it is wrapped up in [Stargate](https://openai.com/index/stargate-advances-with-partnership-with-oracle/) and [similar](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-orcl-focuses-developing-large-041414111.html) commitments. They have so much demand for huge AI datacenters, they can't wait for the electric grid to catch up and plan to spend over $1 billion annually to power a new megasite in West Texas with their own plant. From OpenAI, describing how much of SoftBank's money they've earmarked to spend on Oracle: > This significantly advances our progress toward the commitment we announced at the White House in January to invest $500 billion into 10 gigawatts of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years. We now expect to exceed our initial commitment thanks to strong momentum with partners including Oracle and SoftBank.

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Do you have hobbies? Interests? Travel? Me? I’d probably write my first music album and get it professionally recorded. I might travel Europe see all the key WW2 sites. Go to odd travel places like Greenland and Africa. Hike the mountains and do off the grid camping.

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