“There's about a trillion dollars' worth of installed base of data centers; over the next four to five years another trillion dollars' worth of data center infrastructure will be built, so we'll have $2 trillion of data centers powering software around the world.”
Said Feb 12, 2024Deadline Dec 31, 2029World Government Summit, Dubai — February 12, 2024 (reported by DatacenterDynamics)
Deadline is the end of 2029 (taking the outer bound of Huang's 'four to five years'). Huang made the remark while arguing that compute efficiency gains meant Sam Altman's reported $7 trillion ask was unnecessary.