OpenAI's Greg Brockman: There Will Be Data Centers Everywhere

Well, I think it's going to give us an advantage and I think it's going to be something that's an advantage not just for the business, but for actually delivering on the mission of bringing this technology to everyone.

Mhm. Who's laughing now?

I mean I think our competitors are not having a good time on compute. Let me put it that way.

I think we're going to have data centers everywhere.

Well, data centers in space has many technical problems associated with it. Even for example, the data centers we build today are very finicky, right? They're these massive machines with very breakable, very expensive components. We've had many issues in the past where the cables were just too taut, just literally like too tight of cables and then you get signal integrity issues and the computer doesn't work. And so figuring out how do you maintain systems today, it's people go in physically pull them, probably will move to robotics. So I think figuring out how to solve some of these technical problems are going to be very important dependencies as we think about putting them in, you know, people talk about putting data centers in various difficult locations. Space feels like a grand challenge, but I think that we are going to have such need for compute that we need to be thinking about all options.