@thewallstreetskinny: We know that data centers are a hot button issue, especially when it comes to the land, water, and energy they're using. That's why we sat down with someone who actually builds data centers, extrapolated costs from financial filings from previous projects, and tried to explain how a half a trillion dollar 10 gigawatt AI data center actually gets built, as simply as we can, in under three minutes, on one sheet of paper. Tons of caveats given this deal hasn't even been finalized --- especially on the water front: just because many NEW data centers are being built with closed loop system doesn't change the fact that the majority of OLD data centers are still wasteful. And we barely scratched the surface on the energy issues despite spending half the video talking about them.
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Thursday 13 August 2026 18:51:04 GMT
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Max :
Nvidia is paying $250 billion dollars on a data center that will be using Nvidia chips😭 great economic system we got here, not sketchy at all
2026-08-13 23:56:08
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Highsociety :
So a $500 billion circle jerk
2026-08-14 00:06:14
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Robo Turtle :
All this so my kid can ask ChatGPT hey Chat is bluey a boy or girl dog?
2026-08-15 11:24:14
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Ryface :
It is funny that the entire American economy is being held up by a few companies that are just circular dealing and promising to give each other made up amounts of money
2026-08-14 06:29:22
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Mrchris691 :
China will circumnavigate the whole process with a cheaper smaller system.
2026-08-15 09:52:43
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Bomani Kopano :
New gas-powered infrastructure in 2030
2026-08-14 13:55:55
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SteelerBoy :
How does the building, a concrete and steel shell cost $55 billion? That’s an enormous amount of money for that. Can you explain? Thanks l.
2026-08-14 12:03:29
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Ryan :
Why do we need data centers again
2026-08-14 00:26:23
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MalvinGw :
China can build all this for 3b
2026-08-14 17:34:22
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Adam :
This model of drawing is very old school and my eye balls star rolling from the quick movement! I prefer if you can draw the whole thing and go over it better
2026-08-14 19:43:55
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Bearington656 :
At this point it’s not even about ai or anything else. It’s just money laundering and stock manipulation
2026-08-14 14:18:26
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AtheistTexan :
Nvidia: "We gonna loan u the money to buy our products so you can make enough money to afford our products!"
2026-08-17 23:11:41
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riskyBiskits :
why is nuclear not being talked about? everything is recyclable . . . ?
2026-08-14 02:28:57
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Franky :
China will invent a new technology that won’t require all these infrastructure
2026-08-17 22:47:52
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Modern Stoic :
To put this in context, Costa Rica full power generation is 3.5 GW. This is almost 3x what 5 million people use!
2026-08-14 12:27:16
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Anneee 🖤💛❤️ :
Orrrrrrr. Hear me out….we feed all the starving children. AI is not a need.
2026-08-17 10:42:54
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Blueangel7 :
The funny thing is about all these data centers, they’re going to be obsolete within five years or less and then we’re stuck with all these buildings that are aging they can’t be used or reuse for anything else.
2026-08-16 14:03:58
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Ed Fadhil :
Best explanation video on TikTok 👏🏻
2026-08-14 17:03:16
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ralphwilliams :
By the time they get everything data centers will be obsolete
2026-08-16 01:01:29
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NataEiv :
I don’t believe in those numbers, they’re too high. Why on earth you would need 55 billion for making the building?? This a way out of proportions. They’ll not use that money, they’re hyping things
2026-08-14 14:55:08
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Sublineari-tea :
So many people don’t understand closed loop cooling.
2026-08-14 15:36:07
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Langton Mwanza :
so Zimbabwe, where I live according to our power utility, needs about 1.4GW of power, a county of about 16 million people, this will use many times more power than our entire country
2026-08-16 05:34:12
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Freddy :
This was dope! thank you
2026-08-15 03:34:10
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Jazzy :
Show the jobs once it’s open! 5 or ten?
2026-08-15 07:29:02
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intolerablechris :
2 miles of copper huh? Interesting
2026-08-16 03:03:51
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