{"id":14834,"date":"2025-08-21T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:21:14","slug":"openai-weighs-letting-other-companies-tap-its-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14834\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Weighs Letting Other Companies Tap Its Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0could someday let other businesses tap into data centers needed for artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday (Aug. 21) from Bloomberg News, citing an interview with OpenAI Chief Financial Officer\u00a0Sarah Friar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Such a system would be loosely based on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u2019s practice of renting spare cloud computing capacity to other businesses, Friar said, adding that OpenAI is not \u201cactively looking\u201d at a similar arrangement now as it focuses on boosting\u00a0computing capacity for its own operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think about it as a business down the line, for sure,\u201d Friar added.<\/p>\n

After years of building expertise in designing and establishing data centers, the company now sees a way to profit from that skill and rely less on third-party vendors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all we do is buy from others, all we\u2019re doing is giving them our IP because they\u2019re learning how to build AI infrastructure,\u201d Friar said.<\/p>\n

After years of turning to partners like\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0to fund its\u00a0data center projects<\/a>, the company is now seeing banks and private equity groups \u201ccome to the table\u201d with debt financing to bolster its infrastructure work, Friar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the next path we\u2019re going down,\u201d Friar said. Beyond that, she added, the company is \u201ctrying to be thoughtful\u201d about whether there are \u201cother interesting, novel ways we could do that beyond debt.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI is unprofitable, hindering its ability to build data centers without outside investment, though the company has enjoyed revenue growth due to demand for its ChatGPT model. Friar said the company generated $1 billion in revenue in July, the first time it has done so.<\/p>\n

Also Wednesday, Friar told CNBC that she believed the AI boom was just beginning, following news reports that the industry had reached a bubble.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0more like the railroads<\/a>\u00a0or the buildout of electricity than anything I\u2019ve seen,\u201d Friar said. \u201cThe internet, it turns out in hindsight, was actually a relatively capex-light buildout. I think we are just getting started.<\/p>\n

Her comments came after a\u00a0drop in tech stocks<\/a>, driven in part over concerns that the AI sector is overhyped. Declines of high-profile tech firms like Nvidia, Arm and Palantir were fueled by a new study by researchers at MIT that found that most organizations are getting \u201czero returns\u201d on their investments in the generative AI space.<\/p>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had said last week Friday that the AI\u00a0market is in a bubble<\/a>, while adding that he thought the industry was nonetheless still strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u00a0could someday let other businesses tap into data centers needed for artificial intelligence (AI). That\u2019s according to a\u00a0report\u00a0Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,986,18,19,17,5,307,1351,82,2350],"class_list":{"0":"post-14834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-data-centers","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-pymnts-news","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}