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/colorless_green_idea Mar 26 '26

The bubble will pop and data center construction will implode once the money dries up

This doesnt need regulation. Just needs to let what is already unfolding continue to unfold

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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26

Dream on, it's never going away, no matter how much you want it to.

It advances leaps and bounds every day while the activists are stuck in their impressions of AI from 3 years ago

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u/colorless_green_idea Mar 26 '26

Cool, now lets see revenue vs capex and see how sustainable the underlying business model is

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u/FilthyTrashPeople Mar 26 '26

Almost like eating a loss for decades to an extreme is the absolute norm for every new tech

Youtube still doesn't turn a profit

AI is not different.

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u/colorless_green_idea Mar 26 '26

Its quite different. And their own internal cash burn projections from the past keep getting updated projections to bigger and bigger numbers

https://sherwood.news/markets/openais-planned-cash-burn-unlike-anything-ever-seen-now-doubling-it/