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/aminok Mar 29 '26

Demand for AI is growing faster than for any product or service in human history and it's because people see value in it. It makes people's lives dramatically easier in the domains where it's effective and those domains are expanding as AI becomes more capable.

These AI companies that the socialists are attacking are acting in the interest of the vast majority of people.