{"slug": "openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout", "title": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of \"unsustainable silliness\" in compute buildout", "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of \"unsustainable silliness\" in the global AI data center buildout, saying too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admitted that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects into bad bets, even for OpenAI.", "body_md": "# OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of \"unsustainable silliness\" in compute buildout\n\nBy Matthias BastianSource:\n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com) Sam Altman warns of \"unsustainable silliness\" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects into bad bets, even for [OpenAI](/glossary/openai).\n\nThe article [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of \"unsustainable silliness\" in compute buildout](https://the-decoder.com/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-co-7o97", "published_at": "2026-09-03 12:00:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 12:24:47.691961+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Sam Altman"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-of-unsustainable-silliness-in-compute-buildout.jsonld"}}