China's 100MW datacenters cost under $300M, one-fifth of US; Anthropic narrative shift predicted
max_paperclips · x · 2026-11-12
Quoting SemiAnalysis: a 100MW datacenter in China now costs under $300M excluding IT equipment — about one-fifth of the US cost, with build costs down 25% since 2021. The retweeter uses this to predict Anthropic's narrative will shift by 2027 from "we're building a god and are ahead" to "the Chinese are building a god and must be stopped," merging with Pause AI — implying safety rhetoric may yield to geopolitical competition.
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