AI Data Centre Cost Breakdown: Power, Cooling & Compute

A standard hyperscale shell now costs around $11 million per MW to build, but an AI-optimized facility runs $15–20 million or more per MW. At gigawatt scale, a fully built AI campus lands between $45 and $55 billion per GW.

Compute (GPUs and memory) absorbs roughly 60% of that; power and cooling infrastructure take about a quarter; land and shell make up the rest. The single biggest swing factors are rack density, power strategy, and location, which can move the final number by more than 40%.

What does it cost to build an AI data centre for large-scale model training?

There is no single price, because the number is highly sensitive to a handful of design choices. But the benchmarks have tightened enough to give real ranges.

To answer what it costs to build an AI data centre for large-scale model training, across compute, power, cooling, and land components,...

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