OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Outlines Vision for "Gigawatt Factory"
A new blog post titled "Abundant Intelligence" calls for producing a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week to meet global demand.
A Vision for Abundant Intelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post on September 24, 2025, outlining an ambitious vision to overcome the global compute shortage by creating an industrial-scale AI infrastructure pipeline. In the post, titled "Abundant Intelligence," Altman argued that access to AI could eventually be considered a "fundamental human right" and that a lack of computing power is the primary bottleneck to solving major global challenges.
"Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week," Altman wrote. He acknowledged the execution would be …
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