# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-02T06:31:19.109Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-02/nvidia-puts-a-price-on-ai-factory-capacity-roughly-60-millio
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: markets
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/productive-durable-fungible-ai-factories/)

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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