Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from a projection of ~$600B earlier this year, reflecting new cloud agreements (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/openais-planned-cloud-spending-hits-750-billion-as-computing-efforts-ramp-up-6ac3f58a?st=VGaF4f&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260722/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260722/p20#a260722p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anissa Gardizy / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/openais-planned-cloud-spending-hits-750-billion-as-computing-efforts-ramp-up-6ac3f58a?st=VGaF4f&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from a projection of ~$600B earlier this year, reflecting new cloud agreements</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The AI giant has committed $20 billion to a new data-center project in Georgia and hired an architect of Elon Musk's computing build-out</p>