OpenAI Promises Not to Break Your Local Power Grid

The claim: OpenAI announced the Grid Protectors Program to collaborate with utilities, ensuring that future artificial intelligence compute campuses support grid reliability and safeguard consumer electricity costs.

The reality: Training large language models requires gigawatts of constant energy, which inevitably pushes residential electricity rates higher while grid operators scramble to keep local substations from melting under the load.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Corporate PR spin designed to preempt public anger over rising utility bills caused by data centre expansion.

Read the original: Introducing the Grid Protectors Program