gigawatt-scale AI compute

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Jun 18, 2026
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Balaban: Gigawatt AI clusters require up to $45B for servers alone
“If you were to talk about the capital stack, let's say you can go back down to power generation, two to three million dollars a megawatt, two to three billion dollars a gigawatt for a power plant. The data center is between 10 and fifteen billion dollars a gig…”
Stephen Balaban Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 24:07 The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
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