Altman said 'if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers' (33:25), and that you can make more compute 'all the way down to building more power plants' (33:38).

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There is another loop, which is if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers, including operating chip fab facilities and such, you can make a lot more compute all the way down to building more power plants.

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Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI: Staying Human While Scaling Superintelligence
Stanford Graduate School of Business (YouTube) · 2026-10-21

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Altman tells Stanford OpenAI is betting on robots that build data centres 24 Oct 2026

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