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Opinion
Koomey: OpenAI lacks an obvious path to profitability without massive growth
“Open AI right now is just a major, it's hemorrhaging cash like you can't believe, right? There's no obvious way that they become profitable without a massive increase in the demand for their services and the ability to raise the cost, and that is really unclea…”
John Koomey Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 30:52 A skeptic’s take on AI electricity load growth
Assertion Partly supported
Eliahu-Ontiveros: OpenAI and Oracle to deploy 2.3 GW of reciprocating engines
“They signed this gigantic deal with Oracle in Shackleford County, Texas, where they're going to deploy 2.3 gigawatts of four megawatt reciprocating engines.”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 30:32 Inside the AI power wars
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eliahu-Ontiveros: OpenAI and Anthropic drive half of Amazon and Microsoft buildout
“Increasingly, you basically look at Amazon or Microsoft, how many gigawatts they're building every quarter? Half of that is going to either both of them combined, right? Open AI and Anthropic.”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 11:56 Inside the AI power wars
Insight
Janous: AI companies pay huge speed premiums because base infrastructure is cheap.
“The cost of the base infrastructure for my end product is actually really low. And when I say base infrastructure, I talk about land, you know, power a data center shell, you know, those things are relatively inexpensive. In the grand scheme of operating, you …”
Brian Janous Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 28:38 Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
Assertion Supported
Eliahu-Ontiveros: Lancium is developing Texas power infrastructure for Oracle and OpenAI
“Lancium has been pretty open about this. If you don't know them, they're the ones sort of building the, owning the land and developing the power infra, enabling Texas for Oracle and OpenAI. They have a bunch of other sites that are pretty massive in West Texas…”
Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 38:51 Inside the AI power wars
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