Dylan Patel
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 15 Jul
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I think...
We need to build a lot more power, but it's not like some crazy, crazy like amount.
It's just like doing it properly is the hard thing.
And again, like the cost of power, like you go look at like these deals people are signing, they're still signing like even though the price has skyrocketed from like a few cents a kilowatt hour for these massive, massive purchases to like 10.
it's still, you know, when you think about the full TCL, the cluster, you know, the GPU costs and networking, all of this stuff far outstrips the power.
And same with cooling.
80% of the cost of a GPU data center if you're building Blackwell is capital.
Yeah.
It's the GPU purchases, it's the networking, it's the physical data center power conversion equipment.
All of this stuff is like 80% of the cost.
And then 20% is going to be your LAN and your power and your cooling and your cooling towers and your backup power and your generators and all this stuff.
It's like nothing, which is why it doesn't matter if you spend 10% or 50% more on that.
Because at the end of the day, the expensive thing, right?
Like this is why what Elon did would seem silly, right?
They spent a lot more money on generators outside the data center and these mobile chillers to cool the water down for their liquid cooling instead of like the more cost-effective option because it got the data center up three months faster.
And so like that three months of additional training time is worth way, way, way more on a TCO basis, right?
The performance you got out of the chips and the time to market and all this is way, way faster.
And therefore it was the right decision, even though this part of the data center ballooned in cost, everything else is still there and you're still paying for the chips
And if they were sitting idle, it's not worth it, right?
Exactly, exactly.
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