OpenAI Community Compact Drops NDAs, Covers Power Bills

OpenAI Community Compact ends NDAs with officials and covers full power costs at owned campuses. Can rivals match a 1,000 MW demand cut? OpenAI published the OpenAI Community Compact, also called its National Community Compact, and a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint on November 5, promising that future compute campuses it owns and operates will drop nondisclosure agreements with public officials and cover the full cost of the electricity and grid gear that serve them. The move comes two days after U.S. midterm voters backed data-center limits in nearly every local ballot measure tracked by Ballotpedia and CNBC. OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane told reporters the blueprint has been in the works since August and is meant to set a high floor for how AI labs build.