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The speaker estimates that a realistically concealed compute cluster could contain at most a few hundred thousand GPUs, such as H100s.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“I think the maximum realistic size in my opinion is something like a few hundred thousand GPUs, a few hundred thousand H100s, something like that hidden away.”Play from 1:14:35Report a misattribution
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