U.S. Department of Energy

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• AI for science gains public funding and open infrastructure

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1. Aug 17

   OpenAI joins the PORTS-Pike data-center project

   OpenAI will secure roughly 8 GW of IT capacity at a new campus in Pike County, Ohio with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy, with NVIDIA committing capital to SB Energy.

2. Jul 22

   White House commits $5B+ to the Genesis Mission

   The administration committed more than $5B across 15 agencies, and the Department of Energy selected 278 AI-for-science projects across all 50 states, drawing on national-lab GPU clusters and models from Meta, Google, and OpenAI.