Sam Altman engineered an escape route for OpenAI called Project Stargate, a $500 billion master plan for independent data centers.

OpenAI and its partners are planning to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to fund a data center buildout.

Sam Altman predicted that by the end of 2028, more of the world's intellectual capacity could reside inside data centers than outside them.

Sam Altman planned for "Stargate" to expand into the UAE, building a data center campus in Abu Dhabi seven times larger than Central Park, consuming as much power as Miami.

In May 2015, Sam Altman emailed Elon Musk stating, "I think we need a Manhattan Project for AI."

Sam Altman published a tweet stating that OpenAI does not want government guarantees for its data centers and taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions, contradicting Sarah Frier's public request the day prior.