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Twenty answers, each on data checked between 10 Oct and 3 Nov 2026. Source: the dataset named on each answer’s page · answers.csv · data of

Buildout

  1. How much does the US spend building data centers? $85.0 billion
  2. How fast is US data-center construction growing? 73.2%
  3. Which AI data center draws the most power? 1,276 MW
  4. How much power do AI data centers in the US draw? 15.3 GW
  5. Which country has the most AI data-center power after the US? 1,567 MW
  6. How much do the biggest AI spenders invest? $208.4 billion

Power

  1. Which state gives the most of its power to AI data centers? 18.7%
  2. What does electricity cost a US household? 17.99 cents
  3. Are US home power prices rising? 6.5%
  4. How much new load wants to join the Texas grid? 467.4 GW
  5. How much nuclear power have tech companies contracted? 9.6 GW

Machine

  1. How fast are TSMC’s sales growing? 54.6%
  2. How much does the US spend on servers from Taiwan? $7.9 billion

Chips

  1. What does a DRAM chip cost? €24.31
  2. How many Chinese entities are on the US Entity List? 1,110
  3. How much of their capacity do US chip plants use? 73.9%

Ledger

  1. How many US job cuts were blamed on AI this year? 120,136

Jobs

  1. What is the unemployment rate for recent graduates? 5.7%

Frontier

  1. Whose open AI models are downloaded the most? 251 million

Vendors

  1. How much does the US government spend on AI contracts? $448.8 million