{"id":181424,"date":"2025-10-01T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181424\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:49:08","slug":"analyst-says-openai-needs-a-trillion-dollars-to-keep-chatgpt-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181424\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Says OpenAI Needs a Trillion Dollars to Keep ChatGPT Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Using artificial intelligence requires a lot of power. Like, a *lot* of power. Like, \u201cthe reason your energy bill is now 200 percent what it was is because A.I. companies are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/how-ai-infrastructure-is-driving-a-sharp-rise-in-electricity-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using the power grid<\/a> to generate videos of Garfield making out with Odie\u201d-levels of power.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, these A.I. companies don\u2019t just need electricity to be effective. They need data centers, which pretty much all of them have said they want to spread around the United States. These data centers require time, resources and, most importantly, money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So, if OpenAI were to fulfill all of its current promises, how much would it cost? Tech researcher Ed Zitron has crunched the numbers and, according to him, it would cost\u2026 a trillion dollars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresyoured.at\/openai-onetrillion\/#how-much-will-it-cost-to-run-openai-over-the-next-four-years\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Over the next four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For context, that\u2019s the GDP of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I know what you\u2019re thinking: That sounds like a lot of money! Zitron notes that it is, and that the company is pretty unlikely to get it \u2014 especially because OpenAI isn\u2019t turning a profit despite bringing in $30 billion in revenue last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Zitron goes on to reiterate that, for all of this money, energy usage and wasted water and space, we\u2019re really not getting a great product out of it. They can generate text and images, sure, but they still can\u2019t do basic things like \u201ctell you the number of R\u2019s in the word \u2018strawberry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So, what do you think? Is it worth it to invest a trillion dollars into a software that can\u2019t summarize a paper without making things up? Or should that money go to literally anything else? As someone who just paid my health insurance bill, I would tend toward the latter argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using artificial intelligence requires a lot of power. Like, a *lot* of power. Like, \u201cthe reason your energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-181424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}