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OpenAI has introduced the Grid Protectors Program, though the available text does not describe its terms.

A program framed around grid protection signals that OpenAI is addressing grid-strain concerns directly, which could shape interconnection and community-acceptance expectations for its sites.
Trade pressSlicast · November 3, 2026 at 17:38 UTC · US · Source: OpenAI
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