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Individual training clusters costing hundreds of billions of dollars by 2028

“We’re on the path to individual training clusters costing $100s of billions by 2028—clusters requiring power equivalent to a small/medium US state and more expensive than the International Space Station.”

Leopold AschenbrennerAuthor of "Situational Awareness"; founder of Situational Awareness LP; former OpenAI researcherSaid · Source: situational-awareness.ai

Context: "Situational Awareness", IIIa. Racing to the Trillion-Dollar Cluster (June 2024).

How we judge it

Our interpretation: by 31 Dec 2028, at least one single training cluster (one campus) costs $100B or more, per credible reporting or trackers.

Resolution criteria are our interpretation of the claim, written before grading. Methodology

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Resolve by
Due in 815 days
Verdict
Open
Stated probability
None stated
Specificity
3 of 3 (precise and measurable)

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