OpenAI, Nvidia Executives Discuss AI Infrastructure Needs With Biden Officials
- Altman, Huang visit White House for meetings with officials
- Officials, companies agree on steps to boost US data centers
The Biden administration has said renewables such as wind and solar, as well as battery storage and energy efficiency gains, are some of the best ways to meet growing data center energy demand because they are rapidly scalable and cost competitive.
Photographer: Graeme Sloan/BloombergOpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang met with senior Biden administration officials and other industry leaders at the White House, where they discussed steps to address massive infrastructure needs for artificial intelligence projects.
On the tech side, attendees also included Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google President Ruth Porat, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud chief Matt Garman and Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith, according to a White House statement on Thursday’s meeting. Government officials included Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.