everybody talks about the economics of the ai data center build, the biggest capex buildout in human history not nearly enough people are st…

everybody talks about the economics of the ai data center build, the biggest capex buildout in human history not nearly enough people are stepping back to just marvel at the technology itself i just met amin vahdat, leader of google’s ai data center buildout, whose team delivered this beautiful cluster. it is insane the elite level of technology and engineering excellence that goes into every component of the modern data center, from the accelerators to the model codesign to the racks to the networking to the manufacturing and assembly. the chips are the most insane feat of all, but every component of the whole system is a beast. goosebumps. we didn’t get to see the great pyramids get built, but this is even better. amin also predicted for me what this photo might look like for frontier clusters a decade from now…. training data episode drops soon :) The first Vera Rubin clusters are here! Yesterday, @IneffableLabs took delivery of their Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster from @googlecloud @nvidia The AI frontier jumps forward by yet another generation of hardware. Acceleration continues.

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• Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)
• Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Source: Sonya Huang (X) | 2026-09-25