Sam Altman Calls AI A Metered Utility
On Mar 13, 2026, speaking at the BlackRock US Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI could become a basic utility like electricity, with users billed "by the metre" based on computing usage. He pointed to growing enterprise adoption in coding, research and knowledge work and said OpenAI is investing with partners including Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank to build large data centers to support metered delivery.
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- Read OriginalSam Altman says AI will soon become a utility like electricity, people will buy it from him by the metreindiatoday.in
