The scale of OpenAI’s deals is remarkable: together, they would involve filling data centers with chips and other computing infrastructure that consume 26 gigawatts of electricity—an amount that would dwarf what New York City uses at peak demand in the summer. And yet that is only about a tenth of what Chief Executive Sam Altman recently told employees he wanted to build in the next eight years.
The thing is, it isn’t clear how OpenAI is going to pay for all of it, including the deal with Broadcom. OpenAI’s revenue this year is expected to be around $13 billion, a substantial sum for a startup but nowhere close to enough to justify Altman’s exuberance. The company has told investors it won’t be profitable until 2029.
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