“Based on what I’ve found, I’d be surprised if more than 3GW of actual capacity was turned on in the last two years, which means that NVIDIA has sold anywhere from double to triple the amount of GPUs that the world can hold.”
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It is unlikely that more than 3GW of capacity was turned on worldwide in the past two years, which would mean NVIDIA sold two to three times as many GPUs as can be housed.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?, paragraph 146.
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- 3GW
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: Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?
Based on what I’ve found, I’d be surprised if more than 3GW of actual capacity was turned on in the last two years, which means that NVIDIA has sold anywhere from double to triple the amount of GPUs that the world can hold.
- Where
- paragraph 146
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
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