Leaders in the AI industry are calling for massive investments to create enough infrastructure to develop the technology. Experts warn the development will come with a high social and environmental cost.Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a Monday blog post, called for massive investments in AI infrastructure.Insufficient infrastructure, Altman warned, will lead to wars being fought over the technology.But experts say developing AI infrastructure at scale comes with big social and environmental costs.In a Monday blog post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that massive investment in AI infrastructure is key to market dominance — and avoiding global conflict."If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips)," Altman wrote.