Senator John Fetterman,D-Pa. was one of the last senators to question Openry Chief Sam Altman at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday, and the subjects came out of both Three Mile Island and Democrat Carhartt’s outerwear preferences.
Fetterman said As a senator, he was able to meet people with “a much more impressive work and career,” and because of Altman’s skills, “humans will have great ability to adapt.”
He told Altman that some Americans are concerned about AI on different levels and asked the executives to deal with it.
In response, Altman said he appreciated Fetterman’s praise.
Sam Altman, left, Senator John Fetterman (Getty)
“Thank you, Senator, for your kind words and for normalizing Parker in more space,” he said.
“I love seeing it. I’m very excited about the percentage of progress, but I’m also cautious.” Altman said Regarding specific Democrat questions.
“I think this is beyond what we all fully understand where we are going. This is what I feel like in the biggest…technological revolution that humanity has ever produced,” he said.
Fetterman also asked Microsoft vice-chair Brad Smith about concerns about a surge in data centers that will see utility costs rising for Pennsylvanians and Americans.
“For me, energy security is national security,” he said, citing the use of renewable energy and fossil fuels.
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“My focus is also to make sure that Pennsylvania rate payers are really hitting hard through all this,” he said.
Although the construction of such centres creates jobs, he said these roles are often temporary.
He looked at how he was trying to revive nuclear reactors on the infamous three-mile island of Dauphin County decades ago, and how carbon neutrality is trying to revive the means powered by data centers and other data centers.
“I’ve been tracking plans to reopen TMI (a 3-mile island). My personal story is that I had to grab a hamster and get evacuated during the 1979 meltdown,” he said.
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“You might assume I’m anti-nuclear, and if you really want to deal with climate change, I’m actually very supportive of nuclear weapons because it’s an important part of the stack.”
“But that’s powering Microsoft’s data centers, and if I’m saying it now, if you can commit that, if you can commit a power purchase agreement, you won’t raise the power for your Pennsylvania family.”
Smith responded that in the construction of the data center, Microsoft plans to invest in electricity that it uses comparable amounts of electricity in the power grid, so it would not take advantage of the contracted supply.
“No. 2, we manage all of this in a way that prevents our activities from raising the prices of electricity to our communities,” he said.
