4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The interviewer says an LLM-based wafer-fabrication model estimated tooling costs of $3–4 billion to produce one gigawatt of compute annually.

Dwarkesh Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026

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“i had an llm run your wafer fabric weapon model and figure out how much um tooling how much the tooling costs to produce”
“A gigawatt of compute basically every single year.”
“And we said like three to four billion dollars.”
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