--- title: Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building... description: Sam Altman says OpenAI will direct its robotics program at building data centers, calling self-replicating data centers 'within grasp'. He described using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres-nvw4dxefn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres | daily.dev og:description: Sam Altman says OpenAI will direct its robotics program at building data centers, calling self-replicating data centers 'within grasp'. He described using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-openai-will-point-its-robots-at-building-data-centres-nvw4dxefn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NVw4DxefN.png og:image:alt: Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sam Altman says OpenAI will point its robots at building data centres **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sam Altman says OpenAI will direct its robotics program at building data centers, calling self-replicating data centers 'within grasp'. He described using AI-controlled robots to run chip factories, build turbines and solar panels, and construct data centers to create cheap compute. Altman used $70bn to build and run a gigawatt of AI capacity for five years, and said $20bn would make him 'much happier', though TNW has not verified these figures. Altman also discussed AI finding critical PHP vulnerabilities, and said models keep getting better at finding vulnerabilities, which he expects will lead to 'a world of many more serious vulnerabilities than we expect'. Separately, OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox in September. He said sandboxing works 'to a point' and monitoring works to a further point, and he would rather have a trillion slightly superhuman AIs than one trillion-IQ model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Sam Altman say about using robots to build data centers for OpenAI? Sam Altman said OpenAI will point its robotics program at building data centers, describing self-replicating data centers as 'within grasp'. He envisions AI-controlled robots running chip factories, building turbines and solar panels, and constructing data centers to drive down the cost of compute over time, addressing shortages in permits, parts and memory supply. _Developers tracking AI infrastructure trends can follow this story as it develops on daily.dev._ ### How much does it cost to build a gigawatt of AI data center capacity according to Sam Altman? Sam Altman estimated it costs around $70 billion to build and run a gigawatt of AI capacity for five years, though he said $20 billion would make him 'much happier'. These figures were not independently verified. He also noted memory and chip makers remain cautious about expanding supply after past bankruptcies from overbuilding factories. _Anyone sizing up AI infrastructure costs can keep tabs on these estimates via daily.dev._ ### What did Sam Altman say about AI finding the critical PHP vulnerabilities discovered recently? Sam Altman said AI tools found two critical PHP bugs that led to emergency patches, and he expects AI to uncover 'a world of many more serious vulnerabilities' as it gets applied to more existing code. He said he isn't declaring victory yet and expects more bad outcomes, adding that cybersecurity experts are no longer confident their threat models account for AI-discovered hardware bugs. _Teams worried about AI-discovered vulnerabilities in their stack can track these developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits](https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-says-ai-developers-have-fumbled-at-communicating-the-technology-s-benefits-fux9vvrqj) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Altman: You think AI is inefficient? 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