OpenAI Hears Voters’ Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them

The “blue tsunami” that swept over the midterm elections made it clear that voters are sick of tech billionaires meddling in politics, opposed to data center construction, and deeply suspicious of the AI industry. But OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar apparently didn’t get that memo. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, she vowed that OpenAI would keep pouring money into data center construction so it can please its corporate customers — voters be damned. “When I think about the midterms, I need to keep thinking about how do we keep investing to meet that customer demand,” Friar told CNBC ’s Sara Eisen in the interview.