“As Jensen said, each gigawatt costs $50 to $60 billion to build out, and we're talking about in the United States alone, we're going to need over 70 gigawatts of power to fuel this.”

Larry FinkInvestor

Chairman & CEO, BlackRock; chairman, AI Infrastructure Partnership

Fink gave no completion date for the 70+ GW of US AI power capacity, so the claim is tracked as an open capacity/cost estimate; it was made alongside Nvidia's MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize roughly $500 billion of compute financing.