Comment on Russian search engine Yandex struggles after Ukrainian strikes on data centres

StateMachine@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Louisiana’s new META datacenter is estimated to cost $140-$250 billion dollars once fully deployed (~$100B for the AI accelerators alone) [1]. Imagine being able to destroy $140B-$250B with a missile strike! There would be ripples through the whole world economy.

[1] Sample price info source where cost can be extrapolated: epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/…/meta-hyperion Scaling its $61.8 billion projection from 1.63 GW to the full 5 GW produces approximately $189 billion.

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