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Challenge: How much annual maintenance cost do you estimate for 10GW data center deployed in US?
Source: Reddit Stocks · 2026-07-27
Recent reports say NVIDIA is in talks to support financing for OpenAI’s proposed 10 GW AI data center in Ohio, a project estimated to cost over $500 billion. Based on my estimates, running infrastructure of this size could cost around $25–55+ billion per year. The biggest costs would likely be hardware replacement ($15–40B/year) and electricity ($5–9B/year), followed by maintenance, staffing, cooling, networking, insurance, and other operating expenses. For comparison, OpenAI’s reported annualiz
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