Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft,and several American power and utility companies met Thursday morning at the White House to discuss the future of artificial intelligence energy infrastructure in the U.S., sources familiar with the meeting told CNBC.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google president Ruth Porat were all in attendance at the meeting, which focused on bringing the public and private sectors together to talk about artificial intelligence’s energy usage, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing and grid capacity, sources familiar with the meeting confirmed.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that the company believes building additional infrastructure in the U.S. is critical to the country’s industrial policy and economic future. “We appreciate the White House convening this meeting as it is a recognition of the priority of infrastructure to create jobs, help guarantee that the benefits of AI are widely distributed, and ensure America will continue to be at the forefront of AI innovation,” the OpenAI spokesperson said.
