Can OpenAI make the numbers meet? It's a trillion-dollar question.

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• OpenAI is raising money and considering an IPO amid concerns about its data center spending.
• Experts say OpenAI plans to spend so much that they worry it will be hard to bring in enough revenue.
• The ChatGPT owner is battling for AI supremacy against competitors like Google and Anthropic.

Last November, OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner pressed Sam Altman on a podcast about how a company with $13 billion in revenue could commit to...