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▶ 3:44 · $GOOGL · $SPCX · Google paying 2x spot price for 110K GPUs from SpaceX as compute scarcity intensifies
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Dwarkesh Patel

Why compute prices might 10x as AI gets smarter

2026-08-03 · 7 company · 10 thematic
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dwarkesh patel

Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, known for deeply researched long-form conversations on artificial intelligence, science, economics and history.

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“Google, for example, is paying nine hundred million dollars a month for a hundred and ten thousand GPUs that are a blend of GB200s and GB300s. The price that Google is paying here is 2x the spot price per hour for those GPUs. And that spot…”
—dwarkesh patel
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