OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers 'compute campuses'

Campus usually denotes a school or something, but importantly there are people there, learning, gathering, socializing.

These "compute campuses" are just going to have security and maybe a couple on-call technicians, and otherwise be wastelands in terms of human presence.

This is the kind of newspeak idiocy that people really hate.

Newspeakish rebrand to bypass concerns and reset the conversation so any and all previous discussion becomes meaningless.

"Data centers? We don't have data centers. We have data campuses. Completely different animal. Like apples and oranges. Educate yourself before speaking you Russian bot."

Oh Orwell how prophetic you were.

That IPO must be in big enough trouble (especially after Altman decided to bemoan about personal computing) to warrant this kind of propaganda.