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1. heyden+82[view] [source] 2025-01-21 22:40:58
>>tedsan+(OP)
~$125B per year would be 2-3% of all domestic investment. It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country.

If the electric grid — particularly the interconnection queue — is already the bottleneck to data center deployment, is something on this scale even close to possible? If it's a rationalized policy framework (big if!), I would guess there's some major permitting reform announcement coming soon.

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2. JumpCr+mj[view] [source] 2025-01-22 00:24:37
>>heyden+82
> It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country

I’ve been advocating for a data centre analogue to the Heavy Press Programme for some years [1].

This isn’t quite it. But when I mapped out costs, $1tn over 10 years was very doable. (A lot of it would go to power generation and data transmission infrastructure.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program

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