The Vergecast · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
David Pierce discussed how OpenAI is shifting terminology away from data centers, rebranding them as compute campuses and compute facilities in an effort to lessen the tax on local power grids and public perception.
“OpenAI just announced a new program aimed to make its data centers less taxing on local power grids, but hang on, they're not actually being called data centers at all anymore. They're being called compute campuses and compute facilities.”