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OpenAI leaders are weighing whether political opposition to data centres could make it harder to secure the computing power the company needs. The Wall Street Journal says Sam Altman addressed the issue in a staff Q&A after candidates promising to freeze data-centre development won statehouses in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan.

That makes resistance to new infrastructure more than a planning-room headache: it could shape where AI companies can build and grow. The report, based on people familiar with the discussion, offers no details of what OpenAI might do next. The compute race has discovered that voters also get a say.

Discuss: Should communities be able to freeze data-centre development, even if that limits the computing capacity AI companies can build?

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