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At an assumed cost of $50 billion per gigawatt, building 100 gigawatts of capacity would cost $5 trillion over five years, averaging $1 trillion annually.

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“And let's say it costs $50 billion to build out a gigawatt. That's $5 trillion. $5 trillion over the next five years, right?”
“And so call it a trillion a year. You're, you're talking about a non-trivial percent of GDP, you know, real GDP.”
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