> Isn't 50MW already by itself equivalent to the energy consumption of a typical hyperscaler cloud?

xAI’s first data center buildout was in the 300MW range and their second is in the Gigawatt range. There are planned buildouts from other companies even bigger than that.

So data center buildouts in the AI era need 1-2 orders of magnitude more power and cooling than your 50MW estimate.

Even a single NVL72 rack, just one rack, needs 120kW.