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Comment by falcor84

3 days ago

Good point; the proper comparison might be between something like ENIAC, which reportedly cost $487K to build in 1946, being about$7M now, and a typical Google data center, reportedly costing about $500M.

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mathiaspoint  3 days ago

I think a closer comparison would be one rack or isle, not a whole data center.

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