Building a data center requires roughly $50 billion in CapEx per gigawatt
Hannan Happi · Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 15, 2026 · at 35:59
Exowatt CEO Hannan Happi provides a benchmark for the capital intensity of scaling AI power infrastructure.
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“You could kind of say, rule of thumb, one gigawatt data center, or per gigawatt, you have to spend about fifty billion dollars of capex.”
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