IT之家 News on October 13: Bloomberg Intelligence recently released a brief on AI data center costs: combining data provided by Cushman & Wakefield with its internal analysis,building a 1GW data center in Abilene, Texas, USA could cost up to 30.7 billion US dollars(IT之家 note: approximately 205.869 billion RMB at current exchange rates).
These 30.7 billion US dollars can be divided into ten major parts, among whichthe core chips and server hardware equipment account for more than half at 17.1 billion US dollars, power supply infrastructure consumes 3 billion US dollars, cooling systems take up 1.66 billion US dollars, and network cabling comes to 1.07 billion US dollars.
In addition, land purchase costs reach 180 million US dollars, overall design and engineering 361 million US dollars, construction 2.4 billion US dollars, contingency and reserves 2.79 billion US dollars, commissioning 175 million US dollars, plus 382 million US dollars in various miscellaneous fees.