OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports
THE SO WHAT
An alliance between OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS, SoftBank, and unions to pre-negotiate data center standards is a recognition that power, land, and labor politics are now core constraints on AI growth. If your AI strategy depends on large-scale compute, you need a permitting and community-relations plan as much as a GPU procurement plan.
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