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Morning Edition · Friday, October 2, 2026Published at 2:31 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia Puts a Price on AI Factory Capacity: Roughly $60 Million per Megawatt
The company's return-on-investment argument rests on keeping expensive capacity busy with mixed workloads, a case it is making as data-center capex faces harder questions.
Nvidia has published its own framework for justifying AI data-center spending, stating that each megawatt of AI factory capacity costs roughly $60 million and that operators will only commit capital at gigawatt scale with a clear view of re…
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