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Aschenbrenner reports that frontier-AI boardroom compute-cluster plans have escalated over ~one year from $10B to $100B to trillion-dollar clusters, with every six months adding another zero, and that trillions of dollars are projected to flow into GPU, datacenter, and power buildout before the end of the decade.
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- SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead --- Introduction primary_testimonyweight0.75
locator: Introduction, opening paragraphs
“the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans.”