Why AI Training Costs Millions: A Look at the 'Gigafactory of Compute'
AI training projects routinely cost millions of dollars and years of work. People wonder: why is it so expensive? The usual answer is that it’s not particularly expensive—especially considering that most teams don’t own their own hardware yet. Training AI has always been about massive data centers; that’s just the reality of the field. When you’re not immersed in it, the sheer scale can be hard to visualize. ...