Casey Handmer
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So like how much does five gigawatts worth of GPUs cost?
Yeah.
250 billion.
Sounds about right.
Yeah.
Okay.
So like is 50,000 acres going to cost $250 billion in Texas?
Yes.
That's a lot of money.
Maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, something like that.
So it's literally 0.1% of the cost is land.
How much does a megawatt of solar cost?
Well, if you go and ask the usual suspects, it's a million dollars.
But this is one of the things that breaks my brain at Terraform, which is my day job, which is that the modules themselves, without tariffs, would be like $0.08 a watt.
So that's like $80,000.
$0.08 a watt?
Yeah.
But they're like a dollar a watt, including installation and everything.
Including installation and everything.
But like the panels are the magic part.