Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has committed to spending more than $1 trillion to build out AI infrastructure, totaling 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from tech companies including Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, according to the Financial Times’ calculations. And that’s just over the last month. Recouping these astronomical costs isn’t just OpenAI’s problem, either — vast portions of the wider economy are relying on OpenAI’s success, highligh