OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to revamp a Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure, as the startup explores additional ways the US government can support an industrywide data center build-out for AI.
In a letter last week to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane suggests the administration work with Congress to expand a 35% chips-focused tax credit to AI data centers, AI server producers and electrical grid components, such as transformers and the specialized steel used to produce them. The letter is dated Oct. 27, according to a copy posted online by the company.