“A new large AI data center capable of supporting a gigawatt of power demand could cost around, get this, $30 billion to build and equip.”
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Steve Eisman
The Real Eisman Playbook ·
“The cost to buy NVIDIA's latest GPU chip, Blackwell, can exceed $5,000 per chip. An AI data center can require at least 100,000 Blackwell chips, sometimes more. That means that the cost of just the GPUs is around $500 million.”
Steve Eisman · The Real Eisman Playbook · Big Short Investor Explains How the AI Bubble Could Burst
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cited the cost of a GPU chip and total GPU cost for an AI data center
$5,000 per GPU chip; $500 million for 100,000 GPUs
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