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A gigawatt Abilene data center illustrates rising construction costs

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The newsletter reports an approximately $30 billion cost for a 1-GW Abilene data center and a fivefold increase in memory costs over a year.

Reported metric: 1 GW; $30 billion; memory costs 5x

Reporting date: 2026-10-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 13 issue (www.bloomberg.com)

Original summary of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 13, 2026 reporting. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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A gigawatt Abilene data center illustrates rising construction costs
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-13-abilene-cost
Claim: The newsletter reports an approximately $30 billion cost for a 1-GW Abilene data center and a fivefold increase in memory costs over a year.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-13-2026
- Source linked by the October 13 issue — https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-ai-data-center-build-costs/
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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