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Key facts
- They moved from spending $20 billion in capital expenditures against $19 billion in revenue to generating $100 billion in annual free cash flow per maker
- Altman says the five-year cost of building and operating one gigawatt of AI infrastructure should fall from $70 billion to about $20 billion
- Semiconductor analyst Dylan Patel estimates that current gigawatt construction costs exceed $60 billion
- OpenAI's CEO puts the five-year cost of one gigawatt of AI capacity at $70 billion and says it needs to come down sharply for the industry to scale
Summary
OpenAI's CEO puts the five-year cost of one gigawatt of AI capacity at $70 billion and says it needs to come down sharply for the industry to scale. Altman says the five-year cost of building and operating one gigawatt of AI infrastructure should fall from $70 billion to about $20 billion. He described a drop to about $20 billion as essential for the industry to scale in a healthier way. Altman pointed to two main levers.