🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-06
Dreaming big with $600B
Sometimes, $600B just comes out in polite conversation. Twice?
https://www.techmeme.com/250905/p14#a250905p14
Of course, one of the $600B by 2028 is hard to fathom considering the most recent number for 2025 is only $65B per Meta.
https://www.techmeme.com/250319/p42#a250319p42
What could $600B mean? Well, what if it applied to:
- Selection of strategic global locations
- US Southwest, Northeast, and Central
- Sweden
- Australia
- Commitment to 3 year "get to green’ AI datacenter designs
- strategic land purchases for thousands of acres
- state and regional vPPA negotiations with investments
- Construction of data centers optimized for AI workloads
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- construction of solar power generation sites
- construction of power-storage facilities
- commissioning SMR power infrastructure designs
- Consumption of AI infrastructure
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- evolving with the latest generation of AI chips
- begin transition to custom silicon AI chips
- begin addition of quantum computing
- Give excess power back to the grid by 2030
- convert to 100% solar and SMR
- fully transition to custom silicon AI chips
- fully transition to custom silicon and quantum computing
This would be the equivalent of a cookie-cutter approach to building multiple sites with a Topaz Solar Farm, dual SMRs, and enough vPPA to keep an AI-first design datacenter footprint humming along. Also, by adding to and evolving the latest generation of AI chips with an eye towards the quantum computing future, it could easily use up $600B (or more) in less than 3 years.
Oh, and just by setting aside even ~$30B might enable some of that AI compute to be flying over our heads one day.
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