100 MW of AI Data Center Capacity: About $1.1 Billion for the Building, Nearly $4 Billion With the Chips

Widely quoted estimates put the capital cost of 100 MW of data center capacity at $900 million to more than $1.8 billion depending on facility type, and they do not necessarily include servers and GPUs. Epoch AI’s May 2026 model implies the building is about 30% of the upfront capital for a GB200 NVL72 campus, [...]