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Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to…

Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor.

Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year.

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