Stargate: $500 billion（2020s documentary photography）

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2025-01-21

Stargate: $500 billion

SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX pledge $500 billion over four years to build AI data centers in the US.

Art style · 2020s documentary photography

World population

8.24Bpeople

Primary energy power

2×10¹³W

London → New York message

0.03 seconds

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Kardashev index

0.731

Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1

World populationEstimate

8.24Bpeople

Comparable to today

Total human primary energy power

2×10¹³W

Comparable to today

Compute per dollar

8×10¹⁰floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)

Comparable to today

Fastest delivery time for a message from London to New York

0.03 seconds

Comparable to today

Fastest speed reached by humans

39,897km/h

Comparable to today

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