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PublishedNovember 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

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People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about "compute campuses"? Those sound lovely, right? OpenAI seems to be
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