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The interviewer estimates that $6 billion in fab capital expenditure, including clean rooms and the fab shell, yields one gigawatt of compute capacity per year, and that one gigawatt currently generates $100 billion in annual revenue.
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“Now suppose you add in, you know, clean rooms and shell and everything else of the fab.”
“So six billion dollars of like fab CapEx produces every single year a gigawatt. And a gigawatt produces right now a hundred billion dollars of revenue.”Play from 8:15Report a misattribution
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