At 85% billable uptime, a 1 GW fleet supplies 3.89B GPU-hours/year
bookwormengr · x · 2026-10-21
Continuing the sizing series: 8,760 hours/year × 85% billable uptime gives 7,446 billable hours per GPU. Across 522,000 Blackwell GPUs, a 1 GW datacenter fleet supplies about 3.89 billion billable GPU-hours per year.
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