# A gigawatt of AI compute doesn't need one building

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-01
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... \| PMLS 2025 \| Day 3 \| Open Source AI (Blockworks)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:20 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHsD1bgtvc&t=680s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2025-07-01-a-gigawatt-of-ai-compute-doesn-t-need-one-building-nbdk/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A gigawatt of AI compute doesn't need one building," Superintelligence Needs The Supercloud Why the AI Revolution... \| PMLS 2025 \| Day 3 \| Open Source AI (Blockworks), 1 Jul 2025, 00:11:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHsD1bgtvc&t=680s

## Quote — verbatim

> One Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack draws about 120 kW... To reach a gigawatt of compute, about 8,300 of these racks — traditionally that would mean a dozen hyperscale campuses. But with Akash, those racks can be anywhere... We're not bottlenecked by real estate or substation permits. We route around the constraints... Gigawatt power without a gigawatt footprint.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The disaggregation math behind the Star Cluster; spreading infrastructure unlocks cheap energy, localized cooling, and idle-hardware reactivation.