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Chamath said a gigawatt data center used to cost ~$5B when he started his project but now runs closer to ~$100B fully loaded. The jump is all about silicon density with $NVDA Rubin-class racks approaching 600kW and every gigawatt carrying far more GPU and HBM content.

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