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The speaker estimates that building one gigawatt of capacity could cost between $50 billion and $70 billion.
Jamin Ball · Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter · 7 Nov 2026
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“No. Um, I mean, but again, it's like, do you wanna build a gigawatt, right? $50 billion, $60 billion, $70 billion dollars. That's, that's not a that's not a trivial amount just for...”
“And that's just, just one gigawatt. Um, I think both OpenAI and Anthropic have said they kinda wanna get to five by the end of the year. Who knows if it's, if it's that or something more or less than that.”1:27:58Report a misattribution
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