Not only Sam Altman, OpenAI COO is also quite impressed with Trump government; sends a compliment from stage, saying: Trump administration is setting a great ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who once warned America about Donald Trump has seemingly become a huge fan of his in the second term. The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Sam Altman stood behind the presidential seal at the White House and praised the newly sworn-in president for the $500 billion "Stargate" initiative he was joining to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States.

Altman said it wouldn't have been possible without Trump. Months later at White House dinner for tech CEOs he heaped similar praise. “Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It’s a very refreshing change,” Altman said. “… The investment that’s happening here, the ability to get the power of the industry back in the United States I think will set us up for, you know, a long period of great success.”

Now at a recent event in Washington, OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap too was all praise for the Trump administration. Lightcap complimented the Trump government on stage at the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington this week. Lightcap praised the Trump administration’s push to accelerate AI infrastructure development and increase government use of the technology. “The administration that’s here currently is setting a great example of how to think about this competitively,” he said.

Lightcap made the comment while talking about the government's investment in energy supplies, which he said will also be “critical” to the industry’s success.

OpenAI COO's warning on memory shortage

At the event OpenAI COO Lightcap warned that a persistent shortage of memory chips and mounting constraints on U.S. energy supplies are creating significant bottlenecks for the expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “Right now, it’s memory,” Lightcap stated while on-stage, as per a Bloomberg report.

He noted that while power availability has been the primary hurdle in the past, the industry is now grappling with a tightening supply of specialized hardware components.As reported by Bloomberg, OpenAI and its rivals have been consuming a massive share of global memory chip production. This surge is driven by the acquisition of millions of Nvidia Corp. AI accelerators, which require vast allotments of memory to process the complex computations behind chatbots and generative applications.

To mitigate these risks, OpenAI’s leadership indicated they are aggressively diversifying their supplier base and expanding their data center footprint across new geographic regions to maintain the pace of their infrastructure rollout.The scale of this expansion is unprecedented, with the ChatGPT creator previously committing to spend $1.4 trillion over the coming years on chips and data centers. However, this level of growth has placed immense strain on global power grids.

On its part, OpenAI is exploring a wide array of energy solutions to meet these demands, including nuclear power.The company is currently in discussions to collaborate with Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a move to navigate potential conflicts of interest, Altman announced recently that he is stepping down from Helion’s board and will recuse himself from any direct negotiations between the two organizations.