OpenAI’s head of countries says Canada has the energy and land for data centres

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OpenAI is looking at data centre partnerships in Canada because of the energy and land available there, its head of countries George Osborne told Bloomberg at Mark Carney’s investment summit in Toronto. OpenAI paused its British project in April, saying it would proceed when regulation and the cost of energy allowed.

OpenAI is looking at data centre partnerships in Canada because of the energy and land available there, its head of countries George Osborne told Bloomberg. He was speaking at Mark Carney’s investment summit in Toronto.

Osborne was Britain’s chancellor from 2010 to 2016. In 2012 he hired Carney, then governor of the Bank of Canada, to run the Bank of England.

He joined OpenAI in December as managing director and head of OpenAI for Countries, the arm that takes the Stargate model abroad. He works from London.

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