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There's no reasonable way to get an estimate of what it actually costs FB. 1) The GPU's are not single use, they will amortize it over 3 yrs and there are other
by minhazm 4y ago
There's no reasonable way to get an estimate of what it actually costs FB.
1) The GPU's are not single use, they will amortize it over 3 yrs and there are other things that it will be used for that generate revenue.
2) The cost of the servers for these GPU's to run in with massive CPU, RAM, and storage requirements.
3) The overhead of building and operating all of that infrastructure in terms of people, electricity, cooling, etc.
4) The overhead of having dozens or hundreds of engineers & scientists who contributed to this.
One way you can distill the first three is to use AWS/Azure/GCP costs. But then you are still missing a major factor which is the humans that worked on it, and the human may very well exceed the hardware cost.