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The speaker says that using 100 gigawatts of compute per year at current prices would imply $5 trillion in annual capital expenditure.
Dwarkesh Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“So if you end up in a world where you're doing 100 gigawatts a year,”
“at current prices, that would be 5 trillion of CapEx every single year.”42:48Report a misattribution
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