NVIDIA explains AI factory ROI: ~$60M per megawatt, returns hinge on earning power, durability and fungibility
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-01
NVIDIA published a breakdown of AI factory ROI economics: at roughly $60 million per megawatt, returns depend on three interlocking factors — earning capacity (revenue if all producible tokens sold), useful life (how long hardware keeps earning), and demand for tokens. Weakness in one cannot be offset by strength in another.
The post frames NVIDIA's platform as productive (highest throughput per MW, lowest cost per token), durable (GPUs earning years after shipping), and fungible (running every AI phase plus non-AI workloads). It's vendor evangelism, but articulates the capital-decision framework operators actually use.
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