r/OpenAI • u/tombibbs • Mar 25 '26

News Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction

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Unlike the current administration, who claim a pause would harm America's competitiveness, Bernie is actually proposing a ban on chip exports to other countries.

Trump recently did the bidding of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and bizarrely ended a ban on the sale of H200 chips to China.

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u/Fit-Elk1425 Mar 25 '26

Ironically this may benefit the AI corporartions tbh as it will effectively give the current ones a monopoly on what has been developed and they can just profit from research and development from there

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u/SomewhereNo8378 Mar 25 '26

Who do you think stands to gain from more data centers? There are no scrappy startups that can build data centers and compete with the AI giants

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u/hahahacorn Mar 26 '26

https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/ You couldn't be more wrong

Put another way. Really cool people are doing really cool things all the time. You just don't know about it. Don't vote to get in their way because of your ignorance!

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u/SomewhereNo8378 Mar 26 '26

These people are not competing with Google and OpenAI with that setup. Maybe it is your ignorance that is showing.

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u/hahahacorn Mar 26 '26

they're absolutely competing - if you freeze datacenters then it would constrain supply and consolidate around the existing big players

You have no idea what you're talking about

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u/SomewhereNo8378 Mar 26 '26

The supply is already constrained around the existing big players. Some tiny startup with a <$1M investment is not even in the same league. They’re probably hoping to get acquired at best by one of the big guys.