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5. Compare something like this with a "microscopic" IBM 360 from the good old days.

Thu Jan 8, 2026, 03:32 PM

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I can't tell if this is a photo or AI generated, but it at least gives the kind of scale we are talking about (OpenAI)

reference:
https://geekflare.com/news/openai-is-building-a-massive-new-ai-data-center-across-the-u-s/

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