@gabriel1: 100k h100 datacenter ballpark numbers, so you know the magnitudes rounded to numbers that are easy for quick mental mat…
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A quick breakdown of ballpark numbers for a 100k H100 GPU datacenter, covering GPU costs (~$3B), full datacenter build (~$5B), power consumption (~0.2GW), and annual energy costs (~$50M).
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