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What would be interesting to know how much did it cost xAI to build it ? Ai says between $18-$40 billion to just build, without running cost, but no idea how cl
by TheAlchemist 5mo ago
What would be interesting to know how much did it cost xAI to build it ? Ai says between $18-$40 billion to just build, without running cost, but no idea how close to reality this is.
- pbmango 5mo agoAnthropic is getting capacity from Colossus 1 not Colossus 2 it sounded like. The initial colossus capex was under $5B, making that an even more astounding payoff. Edit: S1 states both are being leased so the 20-25B initial investment probably more relevant
- gjsman-1000 5mo ago... and a sign Anthropic couldn't find enough compute anywhere else, so they had to bite the bullet. Interesting.
- TheAlchemist 5mo agoThe S-1 states that it gets capacity from both Colossus 1 and Colossus 2.
- btian 5mo agoCloser to 18b than 40. Running costs are 1-2b a year.
- tristanj 5mo agoMore like $25 billion since 2025, with $7 billion of spending in the past 3 months. Look at page 22 of the filing.
- jsnell 5mo agoThe AI row of the capex table in the S-1 should be a pretty close approximation.
- pianoben 5mo agoNobody pays MSRP at that scale
- eightysixfour 5mo agoGiven global demand and that they were late to the order party, they probably paid more lol
- gpapilion 5mo agoYes and no. They paid what everyone else pays for those gpus. NVIDIA make the profit and leaves crumbs for the rest. For other components they paid less, but since the gpus are the majority of the cost…