OpenAI wants you to stop calling them data centers
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OpenAI has a plan for the moment the US midterm votes are counted, and one part of it is a new name for the buildings fuelling its business. According to Axios, the company is lining up a public relations push for after Tuesday’s elections, and among the ideas on the table is rebranding data centers as “AI compute campuses.” The timing is deliberate. Democrats are widely seen as likely to take back the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, and OpenAI chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane framed the midterms as a preview of 2028, when he expects AI to be the defining issue of the presidential race. If that prediction holds, the company wants a hand in shaping how voters think about AI before the campaign arguments harden.
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