A latest letter from OpenAI reveals extra particulars about how the corporate is hoping the federal authorities can assist the corporate’s bold plans for knowledge middle building.

The letter — from OpenAI’s chief international affairs officer Chris Lehane and addressed to the White Home’s director of science and know-how coverage Michael Kratsios — argued that the federal government ought to think about increasing the Superior Manufacturing Funding Credit score (AMIC) past semiconductor fabrication to cowl electrical grid parts, AI servers, and AI knowledge facilities.

The AMIC is a 35% tax credit score that was included within the Biden administration’s Chips Act.

“Broadening protection of the AMIC will decrease the efficient price of capital, de-risk early funding, and unlock non-public capital to assist alleviate bottlenecks and speed up the AI construct within the US,” Lehane wrote.

OpenAI’s letter additionally referred to as for the federal government to speed up the allowing and environmental evaluation course of for these tasks, and to create a strategic reserve of uncooked supplies — resembling copper, alumimum, and processed uncommon earth minerals — wanted to construct AI infrastructure.

The corporate first revealed its letter on October 27, however it didn’t get a lot press consideration till this week, when feedback by OpenAI executives prompted broader dialogue about what the corporate desires from the Trump administration.

At a Wall Road Journal occasion on Wednesday, CFO Sarah Friar stated the federal government ought to “backstop” OpenAI’s infrastructure loans, although she later posted on LinkedIn that she misspoke:  “OpenAI will not be searching for a authorities backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the phrase ‘backstop’ and it muddied the purpose.”

CEO Sam Altman additionally weighed in, writing that OpenAI doesn’t “have or need authorities ensures for OpenAI datacenters.”

“We imagine that governments shouldn’t choose winners or losers, and that taxpayers shouldn’t bail out corporations that make dangerous enterprise selections or in any other case lose available in the market,” he wrote, although he stated the corporate had mentioned mortgage ensures “as a part of supporting the buildout of semiconductor fabs within the US.”

In the identical submit, Altman wrote that the corporate expects to finish 2025 “above $20 billion in annualized income run price and develop to lots of of billion by 2030,” and he stated OpenAI has made $1.4 trillion in capital commitments for the following eight years.